Sermons chiefly designed to display the connection between a sound faith and a holy lifeC. and J. Rivington, 1826 - 389 pages |
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... persons ; who, " compassing sea and land to make one proselyte," give that colour to the doctrines of the Gospel, which is most favourable, and therefore most acceptable, to the natural indolence and infirmity of man. The true follower ...
... persons ; who, " compassing sea and land to make one proselyte," give that colour to the doctrines of the Gospel, which is most favourable, and therefore most acceptable, to the natural indolence and infirmity of man. The true follower ...
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... persons of better hope are often unsuspectingly betrayed, under the guise of some right and praiseworthy motive. The attempt to enumerate all the varieties of this self-deceit, would lead us far beyond our present limits. As a single ...
... persons of better hope are often unsuspectingly betrayed, under the guise of some right and praiseworthy motive. The attempt to enumerate all the varieties of this self-deceit, would lead us far beyond our present limits. As a single ...
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... persons, whatever they may imagine to themselves, are led to seek advice by no other motive, than because their reason and their inclination are completely at variance. Self-deceit, in their case, assumes the most plausible of all forms ...
... persons, whatever they may imagine to themselves, are led to seek advice by no other motive, than because their reason and their inclination are completely at variance. Self-deceit, in their case, assumes the most plausible of all forms ...
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... person. But, whatever force there may be in such reflections as these, either to deter us from the neglect of this needful office, or to sustain us in the firm and effectual discharge of it, the main pillar of the whole edifice must ...
... person. But, whatever force there may be in such reflections as these, either to deter us from the neglect of this needful office, or to sustain us in the firm and effectual discharge of it, the main pillar of the whole edifice must ...
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... union and equality with him, we cannot but consider the former expressions as referring exclusively to his human nature ; the latter, to his divine essence. But some well-meaning persons, perhaps, may expect to be further 72 SERMON IV.
... union and equality with him, we cannot but consider the former expressions as referring exclusively to his human nature ; the latter, to his divine essence. But some well-meaning persons, perhaps, may expect to be further 72 SERMON IV.
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Page 251 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.
Page 220 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, That in blessing I will bless thee...
Page vi - My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 94 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews : to them that are under the law...
Page 3 - Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Page iii - For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
Page 1 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 154 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Page 256 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.
Page 232 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.