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... wealth and refinement long enough to familiarise him with the tastes , habits , feelings of a high social sphere ; for by so doing you would only awaken in his mind unsatisfied desires , and render him wretched in his humble condition ...
... wealth and refinement long enough to familiarise him with the tastes , habits , feelings of a high social sphere ; for by so doing you would only awaken in his mind unsatisfied desires , and render him wretched in his humble condition ...
Page 51
... wealth , or worldly fortunes , but the character and happiness of the soul for time and eternity that are implicated , the almost universal endeavour is , not to provide against threatened danger , but to evade or forget the signs of it ...
... wealth , or worldly fortunes , but the character and happiness of the soul for time and eternity that are implicated , the almost universal endeavour is , not to provide against threatened danger , but to evade or forget the signs of it ...
Page 85
... wealth or grandeur is born , the earliest cry of the feeble babe is the signal for loud and universal gratulation , and by a thou- sand obtrusive indications the tidings of the joyous event are borne far and wide . When a decisive ...
... wealth or grandeur is born , the earliest cry of the feeble babe is the signal for loud and universal gratulation , and by a thou- sand obtrusive indications the tidings of the joyous event are borne far and wide . When a decisive ...
Page 94
... soil soon reaches its limit of productiveness . The enterprise of him who seeks earthly wealth is re- stricted by the extent of his capital or credit . But in spiritual things you need set no such bounds to 94 SERMON III .
... soil soon reaches its limit of productiveness . The enterprise of him who seeks earthly wealth is re- stricted by the extent of his capital or credit . But in spiritual things you need set no such bounds to 94 SERMON III .
Page 95
... wealth you may innocently give scope . You are not straitened in God , be not straitened in yourselves . And again , if the agency of the Spirit is not only supernatural , but also sovereign - if in this respect also it can be likened ...
... wealth you may innocently give scope . You are not straitened in God , be not straitened in yourselves . And again , if the agency of the Spirit is not only supernatural , but also sovereign - if in this respect also it can be likened ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...