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... Obedience to those Laws ; to which there is often a strange Averfion in our Hearts , through the Power of Temptation , and the Influence of cor- rupt Appetites and Paffions , and carnal worldly Interefts . The strongest Motives , and ...
... Obedience to those Laws ; to which there is often a strange Averfion in our Hearts , through the Power of Temptation , and the Influence of cor- rupt Appetites and Paffions , and carnal worldly Interefts . The strongest Motives , and ...
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... Obedience . Again , it is of great Importance to us to know upon what Terms God will re- ceive his offending Creatures . Whether and how far he will accept of their Re- pentance , or what farther Reparation he think fit to infist upon ...
... Obedience . Again , it is of great Importance to us to know upon what Terms God will re- ceive his offending Creatures . Whether and how far he will accept of their Re- pentance , or what farther Reparation he think fit to infist upon ...
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... Obedience , they may render to him in the following Part of their Lives . There are many Things here which the wifeft Men , if left to themfelves , cannot pretend to decide with Certainty , and concerning which many Doubts will be apt ...
... Obedience , they may render to him in the following Part of their Lives . There are many Things here which the wifeft Men , if left to themfelves , cannot pretend to decide with Certainty , and concerning which many Doubts will be apt ...
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... Obedience in this ; a greater Reward than they could have challenged as ftrictly due to them , even though they had perfectly obeyed . To have all these Things clearly revealed to us by the Son of God himself , sent from the Father's ...
... Obedience in this ; a greater Reward than they could have challenged as ftrictly due to them , even though they had perfectly obeyed . To have all these Things clearly revealed to us by the Son of God himself , sent from the Father's ...
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... Obedience and Refignation to his Hea- venly Father's Will , that it is worthy the Contemplations of the Bleffed above . Hi- ther therefore let us often turn our Thoughts , and endeavour to get fuch a Senfe of it impreffed upon our ...
... Obedience and Refignation to his Hea- venly Father's Will , that it is worthy the Contemplations of the Bleffed above . Hi- ther therefore let us often turn our Thoughts , and endeavour to get fuch a Senfe of it impreffed upon our ...
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Page 257 - My lord delayeth his coming, and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Page 120 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 244 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Page 236 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 379 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Page 102 - Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, LORD, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Page 246 - But the Father said to his servants. Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found And they began to be merry.
Page 416 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 474 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 150 - I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the wind? blew and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.