Short Discourses to be Read in Families, Volume 2Oliver D. Cooke; Peter B. Gleason & Company printers, 1812 - Devotional literature |
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... commanded you to believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ , and trampling under foot his mer- cy and his grace . You offend him even more by your unbelief , than by your iniquity . The gospel has its threatenings , as well as the law ...
... commanded you to believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ , and trampling under foot his mer- cy and his grace . You offend him even more by your unbelief , than by your iniquity . The gospel has its threatenings , as well as the law ...
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... commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves , and therefore every deviation from this rule is a transgression of his law , and a prov- ocation of his anger . But when we judge ourselves more immediately in relation to him , when we ...
... commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves , and therefore every deviation from this rule is a transgression of his law , and a prov- ocation of his anger . But when we judge ourselves more immediately in relation to him , when we ...
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... commanded to provide for our own house ? Where- in then does this man appear blameable ? Perhaps he was actuated by avarice , and was seeking , not a subsist- ence , but a splended independence . Perhaps he was in- fluenced by ...
... commanded to provide for our own house ? Where- in then does this man appear blameable ? Perhaps he was actuated by avarice , and was seeking , not a subsist- ence , but a splended independence . Perhaps he was in- fluenced by ...
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... commanded to seek it . In the mean time I would observe - that the solicitude you feel , is no bad evidence in your favor . In proportion as the mind feels the importance of salva- tion , it longs for certainty , and fearful of ...
... commanded to seek it . In the mean time I would observe - that the solicitude you feel , is no bad evidence in your favor . In proportion as the mind feels the importance of salva- tion , it longs for certainty , and fearful of ...
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... commanded , is also promised ; and the means which the gospel furnishes , are adequate to the end which it proposes . The duty enjoined us , demauds more than an angel's strength - and we have more- " our suffi " ciency is of God . My ...
... commanded , is also promised ; and the means which the gospel furnishes , are adequate to the end which it proposes . The duty enjoined us , demauds more than an angel's strength - and we have more- " our suffi " ciency is of God . My ...
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Adoni-bezek afflictions Ahab appear art the guide behold believe Bezek blessed body brethren Canaan chariot of fire christian cometh comfort consider David death desire despise disciples DISCOURSE divine grace duty earth Egypt enemies enter eternal everlasting evil eyes faith Father favor fear feel fellow creatures flesh friends give glory godliness goeth gospel hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hence holy holy spirit honor hope idolatry Israel Jesus Christ Jews king kingdom kingdom of God labor live mercy mind Nehemiah ness never Onesimus pass peace praise pray prayer promise reason receive rection rejoice religion remember render repentance rich righteous salvation says the apostle scripture Secondly seek servants shew sinner sins soul spirit suffer sure thee thine things thou art thou hast tion truth vanity vile body walk Wherefore wilt thou word yourselves
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Page 3 - Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 151 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 266 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Page 255 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 171 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 203 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 215 - And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing ; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee ; but if not, it shall not be so.
Page 246 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 183 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 221 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.