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... reason upon thy dispensations ! They look at them through the mist of their passions , which often transforms their beauty into deformity , and to such Thou appearest terrible even in the most brilliant dis- plays of Thy glory ...
... reason upon thy dispensations ! They look at them through the mist of their passions , which often transforms their beauty into deformity , and to such Thou appearest terrible even in the most brilliant dis- plays of Thy glory ...
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... reason , that were He not every where present , evil would prevail . The presence of the one excludes that of the other , or , where the latter is allowed to exist , and it exists no where but by Divine permission , circumscribes it to ...
... reason , that were He not every where present , evil would prevail . The presence of the one excludes that of the other , or , where the latter is allowed to exist , and it exists no where but by Divine permission , circumscribes it to ...
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... reasons assigned , because He was supremely good , but himself likewise because he was good . His goodness warranted the love of himself ; all good being of God , and therefore to be loved for God's sake . Thus , self - love in the ...
... reasons assigned , because He was supremely good , but himself likewise because he was good . His goodness warranted the love of himself ; all good being of God , and therefore to be loved for God's sake . Thus , self - love in the ...
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... reason that we love not God . We pass by His image in ourselves , to fix our affections on that part of ourselves , out of which our corrupt dispositions rise . We love that which is earthly and sensual , to the great prejudice of that ...
... reason that we love not God . We pass by His image in ourselves , to fix our affections on that part of ourselves , out of which our corrupt dispositions rise . We love that which is earthly and sensual , to the great prejudice of that ...
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... ; and for no better reason than because the welfare of his soul is incompatible with the enjoyments solicited by his body , imposing upon it restraints which his exclusive affection for this body , ren- ders 64 ON SELF - Love .
... ; and for no better reason than because the welfare of his soul is incompatible with the enjoyments solicited by his body , imposing upon it restraints which his exclusive affection for this body , ren- ders 64 ON SELF - Love .
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Adam affection Almighty armour of God become benefit blessed bosom Canaan Canaanites cast cation Christ Christian commands common condition consequently corruption covenant creature criminal death Deity demands depraved desire ditions Divine Divine grace Divine principle dominion earth embrace enemy entertained eternal everlasting evil faith falsehood fatal favour feel fruit glory God's godly goeth Gospel grace guilt harlot heart heathen heaven Hebrew holy honour house of mirth human idle immortal infirmity innocent Israelites Jericho Jews labour latter less likewise living Lord means ment mercy mind mischief moral motive nature neighbour ness never obedience object obligation ourselves parable passion penalty perfect perished person pleasures pride principle produce pure race Rahab reason Redeemer religion religious render righteousness sacred salvation Satan saved Saviour seed self-love sinner sins soul spiritual temporal temptation term of trial things tion truth unto whole wicked words worship
Popular passages
Page 357 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith : I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Page 251 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 185 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 310 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page 3 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 374 - That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 148 - But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Page 129 - Talk no more so exceeding proudly ; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth : for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Page 223 - ... forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 315 - By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.