The Domestic ChaplainSpalding and Storrs, 1839 - 156 pages |
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... selfish and haughty , it is only by the most humbling conviction , that they become sensible of their guilt . When they are subjected to the divine displeasure , in what is necessary to their very subsistence , they cannot easily ...
... selfish and haughty , it is only by the most humbling conviction , that they become sensible of their guilt . When they are subjected to the divine displeasure , in what is necessary to their very subsistence , they cannot easily ...
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... selfishness . His heart was turned to himself and his selfish interests . In the spirit of selfishness he brought his offering to the Lord . Though he might not , at that time , have visibly shown his selfishness , yet when Abel was ...
... selfishness . His heart was turned to himself and his selfish interests . In the spirit of selfishness he brought his offering to the Lord . Though he might not , at that time , have visibly shown his selfishness , yet when Abel was ...
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... selfish creatures ? And selfishness , according to the law and the gospel , is the sum and essence of moral depravity and sinfulness . 2. Mankind are naturally disposed to deceive them- selves respecting their moral character . By their ...
... selfish creatures ? And selfishness , according to the law and the gospel , is the sum and essence of moral depravity and sinfulness . 2. Mankind are naturally disposed to deceive them- selves respecting their moral character . By their ...
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... selfish interest and every earthly prospect , for hundreds of years , he walked with God . His righteous affections , under the influence of Divine truth , governed his words and actions . 3. Noah maintained the principles of ...
... selfish interest and every earthly prospect , for hundreds of years , he walked with God . His righteous affections , under the influence of Divine truth , governed his words and actions . 3. Noah maintained the principles of ...
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... selfishness and become benevolent , they will be prepared to enjoy God and the blessings and glories of his kingdom . But the wicked , in the spirit of selfishness , can neither receive , nor see any real good . — 66 They will be ...
... selfishness and become benevolent , they will be prepared to enjoy God and the blessings and glories of his kingdom . But the wicked , in the spirit of selfishness , can neither receive , nor see any real good . — 66 They will be ...
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Page 27 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 74 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 46 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 70 - Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously : yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Page 31 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Page 5 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 80 - And, behold, I am •with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 130 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 56 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.