Remains of the Rev. Richard CecilJ. Grigg, Towar & Hogan and the American Sunday S. Union, 1826 - 285 pages |
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... occasions , when the current hurries a man away , and he has lost the religious government of himself . When the pilot finds , on making the port of Messina , that the ship will not obey the helm , he knows that she is got within the ...
... occasions , when the current hurries a man away , and he has lost the religious government of himself . When the pilot finds , on making the port of Messina , that the ship will not obey the helm , he knows that she is got within the ...
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... occasion , without reflec- tion and inquiry , is the death of personal reli- gion . It will not suffice merely to ... occasion , nothing is further from it than recollectedness . I have , for weeks together , in some scheme , acted so ...
... occasion , without reflec- tion and inquiry , is the death of personal reli- gion . It will not suffice merely to ... occasion , nothing is further from it than recollectedness . I have , for weeks together , in some scheme , acted so ...
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... occasions , too often savours of this world . We become one among our hearers . They come to church on Sunday ; and we preach : the week comes round again , and its nonsense with it . Now if a minister were what he should be , the ...
... occasions , too often savours of this world . We become one among our hearers . They come to church on Sunday ; and we preach : the week comes round again , and its nonsense with it . Now if a minister were what he should be , the ...
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... occasion . If he points out but a small error , yet that is worth detecting . In the present habits of men , it is so difficult to get them to tell the naked truth , that a Minister should show a disposition to be cor- rected : he ...
... occasion . If he points out but a small error , yet that is worth detecting . In the present habits of men , it is so difficult to get them to tell the naked truth , that a Minister should show a disposition to be cor- rected : he ...
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... occasion of preaching a sermon to him : - " Sir , do you come to instruct me , or to be instructed ? Before we enter on a question which has exercised the greatest men , we want a preparedness of mind : want a deep humility — a ...
... occasion of preaching a sermon to him : - " Sir , do you come to instruct me , or to be instructed ? Before we enter on a question which has exercised the greatest men , we want a preparedness of mind : want a deep humility — a ...
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Page 73 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 160 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 247 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Page 98 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 271 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Page 178 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 274 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest : and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words...
Page 33 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all.