Works of the Rev. Henry Scougal: Sometime Professor of Divinity in the University of AberdeenWilliam Collins, 1830 - 412 pages |
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Page ix
... humility , and not a penitential sigh shall be sent upward to heaven from a heart bowed down un- der an overwhelming sense of the fact , that , against this Being of power and glory , infinite , innumerable sins have been committed by ...
... humility , and not a penitential sigh shall be sent upward to heaven from a heart bowed down un- der an overwhelming sense of the fact , that , against this Being of power and glory , infinite , innumerable sins have been committed by ...
Page xii
... humility , the penitence , the sorrow of the publican who was accepted ; and it was because he neither saw nor felt his sin and danger , nor sorrowfully confessed God's justice in connecting punishment with sin , nor pleaded an ...
... humility , the penitence , the sorrow of the publican who was accepted ; and it was because he neither saw nor felt his sin and danger , nor sorrowfully confessed God's justice in connecting punishment with sin , nor pleaded an ...
Page 48
... humility : for , as an excellent person hath well observed , however these names be common and vulgar , and make no extraordinary sound , yet do they carry such a mighty sense , that the tongue of man or angel can pronounce nothing more ...
... humility : for , as an excellent person hath well observed , however these names be common and vulgar , and make no extraordinary sound , yet do they carry such a mighty sense , that the tongue of man or angel can pronounce nothing more ...
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... Humility imports a deep sense of our own mean- ness , with a hearty and affectionate acknowledgment of our owing all that we are to the divine bounty ; which is always accompanied with a profound submis- sion to the will of God , and ...
... Humility imports a deep sense of our own mean- ness , with a hearty and affectionate acknowledgment of our owing all that we are to the divine bounty ; which is always accompanied with a profound submis- sion to the will of God , and ...
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... humility , the last branch of the divine life ; wherein he was a most eminent pattern to us , that we might " learn of him to be meek and lowly in heart . " I shall not now speak of that infinite con- descension of the eternal Son of ...
... humility , the last branch of the divine life ; wherein he was a most eminent pattern to us , that we might " learn of him to be meek and lowly in heart . " I shall not now speak of that infinite con- descension of the eternal Son of ...
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Page 171 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 246 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Page 251 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! and ye would not...
Page 337 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Page 305 - I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom ; preach the Word ; be instant in season and out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Page 214 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 261 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Page 127 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that It is for his life.
Page 211 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; 7 All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Page 266 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day, and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes ; and be ready against the third day : for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.