Sermons by Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1868 - Congregational churches |
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... reason in it . " I proceed to make some applications founded on this gen- eral view : 1. There are many men who do not believe in these truths . They can not see any sense in them . When we talk about schools , and churches , and orphan ...
... reason in it . " I proceed to make some applications founded on this gen- eral view : 1. There are many men who do not believe in these truths . They can not see any sense in them . When we talk about schools , and churches , and orphan ...
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... reasons , have died in the Lord , and come forth again . Oh , how dark it seems when they are cut off ! When the only son of the widowed mother is taken from her ; when , in the hour of defeat , he goes down to the grave , who can find ...
... reasons , have died in the Lord , and come forth again . Oh , how dark it seems when they are cut off ! When the only son of the widowed mother is taken from her ; when , in the hour of defeat , he goes down to the grave , who can find ...
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... reason , to assume even a lower place , and to become a man . Is he less than God that is more than man and more than angel ? Partly arising from discussions , and partly from the re- maining thorns and nettles with which sectarianism ...
... reason , to assume even a lower place , and to become a man . Is he less than God that is more than man and more than angel ? Partly arising from discussions , and partly from the re- maining thorns and nettles with which sectarianism ...
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... reason , and our affections are able to take a personal hold upon him . It is just the difference between a God afar off and a God near at hand ; between a God that the heart can reach , and by its common sympathies under- stand and ...
... reason , and our affections are able to take a personal hold upon him . It is just the difference between a God afar off and a God near at hand ; between a God that the heart can reach , and by its common sympathies under- stand and ...
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... reason ! But if there is a second mind that did these things , and the divine mind is left out of sight , unrevealed by such natural , beautiful , engaging acts , we are left nearly as much in the dark upon the divine disposition as we ...
... reason ! But if there is a second mind that did these things , and the divine mind is left out of sight , unrevealed by such natural , beautiful , engaging acts , we are left nearly as much in the dark upon the divine disposition as we ...
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Page 232 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities ; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Page 40 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 11 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Page 427 - And he said, This will I do, I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits, and my goods. 21 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.
Page 66 - Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Page 91 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 49 - For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren; saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I, and the children which God hath given me.
Page 23 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Page 118 - And he would not for a while : but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man ; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 358 - And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead...