Sermons: The constraining influence of Christ's loveEastburn, Kirk, 1816 |
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... Seek then this best of gifts ; seek after it as hidden trea- This love , if once shed abroad in the heart , will overawe your passions and ap- petites , those troublers of man will appease conscience ; will diffuse contentment through ...
... Seek then this best of gifts ; seek after it as hidden trea- This love , if once shed abroad in the heart , will overawe your passions and ap- petites , those troublers of man will appease conscience ; will diffuse contentment through ...
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... seek to cast its veil over the deficien- cies of friends in relation to moral charac- ter . Ere long the soothing accents of kind- ness will no more be poured forth to quiet the heart , racked with pain on account of its own ...
... seek to cast its veil over the deficien- cies of friends in relation to moral charac- ter . Ere long the soothing accents of kind- ness will no more be poured forth to quiet the heart , racked with pain on account of its own ...
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... seek after honours , and , as they prosper , indulge themselves more and more in ease and in worldly modes of living . They converse like the men of the world , adopt their maxims , apparently are influ- enced by their principles , and ...
... seek after honours , and , as they prosper , indulge themselves more and more in ease and in worldly modes of living . They converse like the men of the world , adopt their maxims , apparently are influ- enced by their principles , and ...
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... seek their chief plea- sure , instead of seeking it in him , and in obedience to his most perfect will . Thus they act like the children of Israel in the wil- derness , who , when they had manna from heaven for food , lusted after the ...
... seek their chief plea- sure , instead of seeking it in him , and in obedience to his most perfect will . Thus they act like the children of Israel in the wil- derness , who , when they had manna from heaven for food , lusted after the ...
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... Seek to be more and more qualified for heaven . The Lord grant that we may meet there with those who have gone before us , and have entered into the rest of their Lord . AMEN . n Hosea xiv . 2 , 3 . SERMON V. THE ONLY SAFETY IN THE HOUR ...
... Seek to be more and more qualified for heaven . The Lord grant that we may meet there with those who have gone before us , and have entered into the rest of their Lord . AMEN . n Hosea xiv . 2 , 3 . SERMON V. THE ONLY SAFETY IN THE HOUR ...
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Page 170 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 266 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 252 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 197 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Page 246 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 98 - In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house : and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it, according to the number of the souls ; every man according to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb.
Page 430 - And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water : and the eunuch said, See, here is water : what doth hinder me to be baptized ? And Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Page 174 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 266 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 267 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.