The Works of the Rev. H. Scougal: Containing the Life of God in the Soul of Man; with Nine Other Discourses on Important Subjects. To which is Added a Sermon Preached at the Author's Funeral, by George GairdenPierce and Williams, 1831 - 272 pages |
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... need any new encomiums . It can , however , be no improper preface to this edition , ( which we hope will be found a correct one , ) to present the reader with the accounts of the following discourses , which the rev- erend and learned ...
... need any new encomiums . It can , however , be no improper preface to this edition , ( which we hope will be found a correct one , ) to present the reader with the accounts of the following discourses , which the rev- erend and learned ...
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... need to step out of my road to gratify you ; but I may at once perform an office of friendship , and dis- charge an exercise of my function , since the advancing of virtue and holiness ( which I hope you make your great- est study ) is ...
... need to step out of my road to gratify you ; but I may at once perform an office of friendship , and dis- charge an exercise of my function , since the advancing of virtue and holiness ( which I hope you make your great- est study ) is ...
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... needs be enlarged towards all mankind in a sincere and unbounded affection , because of the relation they have to God , being his creatures , and having something of his image stamped upon them . And this is that char- ity I named as ...
... needs be enlarged towards all mankind in a sincere and unbounded affection , because of the relation they have to God , being his creatures , and having something of his image stamped upon them . And this is that char- ity I named as ...
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... needs not desire to pry into the hidden rolls of God's decrees , or search the volumes of heaven , to know what is deter- mined about his everlasting condition ; but he may find a copy of God's thoughts concerning him written in his own ...
... needs not desire to pry into the hidden rolls of God's decrees , or search the volumes of heaven , to know what is deter- mined about his everlasting condition ; but he may find a copy of God's thoughts concerning him written in his own ...
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... needs be miserable , and full of trouble and disquietude , when there is not worth and excellency enough in the object to answer the vastness of its capacity . So eager and violent a passion , cannot but fret and torment the spirit ...
... needs be miserable , and full of trouble and disquietude , when there is not worth and excellency enough in the object to answer the vastness of its capacity . So eager and violent a passion , cannot but fret and torment the spirit ...
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Page 217 - ... looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority, let no man despise thee.
Page 154 - How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with Thee.
Page 156 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Page 195 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 120 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 215 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 152 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 153 - 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 153 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 86 - 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.