Discourses upon some of the principal objects and uses of the historical Scriptures of the Old Testament, preached before the University of OxfordJ. H. Parker, 1833 - 193 pages |
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... reference to either branch of this great sub- ject - the PROVIDENCE of God — and His PRO- MISES . In the concluding Discourse are considered those ANTICIPATIONS OF THE GOSPEL which may be discovered in the sacred records of the Old ...
... reference to either branch of this great sub- ject - the PROVIDENCE of God — and His PRO- MISES . In the concluding Discourse are considered those ANTICIPATIONS OF THE GOSPEL which may be discovered in the sacred records of the Old ...
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... reference is correct . For the various attributes of God require to be unfolded to our view in varied lights and circumstances , in order that we may attain at last to something like an adequate conception of the nature of that great ...
... reference is correct . For the various attributes of God require to be unfolded to our view in varied lights and circumstances , in order that we may attain at last to something like an adequate conception of the nature of that great ...
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... reference not to their will or moral powers , but only to their understanding . Yet if we recollect that the Hivites of Gibeon ( not to mention the Girgashites , whose case is less certain ) actually made themselves an exception to ...
... reference not to their will or moral powers , but only to their understanding . Yet if we recollect that the Hivites of Gibeon ( not to mention the Girgashites , whose case is less certain ) actually made themselves an exception to ...
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... reference to a future state of retribution , their application to ourselves is immediate and unqualified . Whatever passages or examples they contain to this effect are even more applicable to us than to the Patriarch or the Israelite ...
... reference to a future state of retribution , their application to ourselves is immediate and unqualified . Whatever passages or examples they contain to this effect are even more applicable to us than to the Patriarch or the Israelite ...
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... reference to the providence of God , we have already considered ; let us enquire at present into the support they were designed to render to the faith of Christians in the DIVINE PROMISES . And this inquiry may be distributed under ...
... reference to the providence of God , we have already considered ; let us enquire at present into the support they were designed to render to the faith of Christians in the DIVINE PROMISES . And this inquiry may be distributed under ...
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Page 164 - BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Page 47 - Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent ; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 63 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, he instructed him, * He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 167 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 49 - I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
Page 167 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
Page 37 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 36 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 71 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever : but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Page 183 - ALMIGHTY God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life ; Give us grace, that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.