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... better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them , and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage • SERMON XXI . THE PUNISHMENT OF GEHAZI . Preached on the evening of the 11th Sunday after Trinity . 2 KINGS V. 27 . The ...
... better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them , and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage • SERMON XXI . THE PUNISHMENT OF GEHAZI . Preached on the evening of the 11th Sunday after Trinity . 2 KINGS V. 27 . The ...
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... better for her to transgress or not , was a sin of great ingratitude and most grievous folly . However she did not stop at this . The road of sin is a down- hill road . Having looked at the tree , and found it pleasant to the eye ...
... better for her to transgress or not , was a sin of great ingratitude and most grievous folly . However she did not stop at this . The road of sin is a down- hill road . Having looked at the tree , and found it pleasant to the eye ...
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... better . But the devil was a liar from the begin- ning . He promised that their eyes should be opened , and that they should be as gods , knowing good and evil . Their eyes , indeed , were opened ; but it was only to see that they were ...
... better . But the devil was a liar from the begin- ning . He promised that their eyes should be opened , and that they should be as gods , knowing good and evil . Their eyes , indeed , were opened ; but it was only to see that they were ...
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... better purposes , its effect upon the natural man is to drive him by various expedients to put God out of all his thoughts . The prodigal , like Adam among the trees , gathers all together , and departs from his Father's house into a ...
... better purposes , its effect upon the natural man is to drive him by various expedients to put God out of all his thoughts . The prodigal , like Adam among the trees , gathers all together , and departs from his Father's house into a ...
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... better persuaded though one had risen from the dead to testify to them . As godly living both proves faith and helps it , worldly living both proves unbelief and confirms it . If faith is necessary , therefore , so is holiness ; and to ...
... better persuaded though one had risen from the dead to testify to them . As godly living both proves faith and helps it , worldly living both proves unbelief and confirms it . If faith is necessary , therefore , so is holiness ; and to ...
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Page 42 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 121 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, C 261 3 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 224 - LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 142 - And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin : and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 249 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 102 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Page 224 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God.
Page 252 - God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Page 288 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 71 - And his brethren could not answer him ; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.