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... commands of God ; fome they will comply with , others they will not regard . They will strain at a gnat in some things , and in others fwallow a camel . At a communion , or un- der a conviction , they fay , as in Deut . v . 27 . " Speak ...
... commands of God ; fome they will comply with , others they will not regard . They will strain at a gnat in some things , and in others fwallow a camel . At a communion , or un- der a conviction , they fay , as in Deut . v . 27 . " Speak ...
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... command . While he stood , they were all of them moft eafy in his service . But now that matters are reverfed with him , their fituation is also reversed ; none of them failed to share in his mifery . For though vanity , corruption ...
... command . While he stood , they were all of them moft eafy in his service . But now that matters are reverfed with him , their fituation is also reversed ; none of them failed to share in his mifery . For though vanity , corruption ...
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... command- ment holy , and just , and good . ” — ( 2 . ) Their obser- ving himself as the centre of all their defires , All goodness , holiness , and perfection , center in him . That which is scattered here and there in his word ...
... command- ment holy , and just , and good . ” — ( 2 . ) Their obser- ving himself as the centre of all their defires , All goodness , holiness , and perfection , center in him . That which is scattered here and there in his word ...
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... command that these stones be made bread , " Matth . iv . 3. He has his temptations for the poor and for the rich . He tempts the poor to steal , and the rich to deny God . Hence faid Agur , " Give me neither poverty nor riches , feed me ...
... command that these stones be made bread , " Matth . iv . 3. He has his temptations for the poor and for the rich . He tempts the poor to steal , and the rich to deny God . Hence faid Agur , " Give me neither poverty nor riches , feed me ...
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... " How can ye believe , who seek honour one of another , and feek not the honour that cometh from God only ? " - Bitterness of fpirit , which can- not not digeft the gofpel - command , of doing good 162 THE CHRISTIAN DESCRIBED ,
... " How can ye believe , who seek honour one of another , and feek not the honour that cometh from God only ? " - Bitterness of fpirit , which can- not not digeft the gofpel - command , of doing good 162 THE CHRISTIAN DESCRIBED ,
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Page 36 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 401 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 261 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him.
Page 8 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Page 10 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 289 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Page 252 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips ; but their heart is far from me.
Page 10 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 262 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 341 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled...