Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... muft now by the creatures learn to know God . That the creatures , ( as one faith ) like Balaam's afs , fhould teach their master . But though this be the unhappiness of poor man in his collapsed ftate , yet it is now his wifdom to ...
... muft now by the creatures learn to know God . That the creatures , ( as one faith ) like Balaam's afs , fhould teach their master . But though this be the unhappiness of poor man in his collapsed ftate , yet it is now his wifdom to ...
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... muft labour and toil , and there reft . I fee the husbandman's life is a great toil : no excellent thing can be obtained without labour , and an obftinate patience . I fee the feed inuft be hidden in the furrows , rotten and corrupted ...
... muft labour and toil , and there reft . I fee the husbandman's life is a great toil : no excellent thing can be obtained without labour , and an obftinate patience . I fee the feed inuft be hidden in the furrows , rotten and corrupted ...
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... muft , to one he knows not whom , And then must come to an eternal doom ; And hear his poor neglected , wretched foul Tell him at last that he hath play'd the foòl . But here he's taught , how he , before he die , May lay up treafure ...
... muft , to one he knows not whom , And then must come to an eternal doom ; And hear his poor neglected , wretched foul Tell him at last that he hath play'd the foòl . But here he's taught , how he , before he die , May lay up treafure ...
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... muft not lord it over God's heritage , as if the church were for them , and not they for the church ; nor serve themselves of it , but be the church's fervants for Jefus fake , 2 Cor . iv . 6. The power they have received being for ...
... muft not lord it over God's heritage , as if the church were for them , and not they for the church ; nor serve themselves of it , but be the church's fervants for Jefus fake , 2 Cor . iv . 6. The power they have received being for ...
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... muft neither be too fat , nor poor ; The middle fate fuits beft with Chriftians , fure . OBSERVATION . USBANDMEN find , by experience , that their arable lands may be dreffed too much , as well as too little ; if the foil be over - rank ...
... muft neither be too fat , nor poor ; The middle fate fuits beft with Chriftians , fure . OBSERVATION . USBANDMEN find , by experience , that their arable lands may be dreffed too much , as well as too little ; if the foil be over - rank ...
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Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 608 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 398 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 78 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...
Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 496 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 303 - 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 399 - 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 68 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Page 225 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.