The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 51813 |
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Page 56
... young seeds of virtue and godliness , that were beginning to spring in the heart . And I am bold to say , that if our fathers were in any degree too rigid and austere in pronouncing these things abso- lutely criminal and sinful , and in ...
... young seeds of virtue and godliness , that were beginning to spring in the heart . And I am bold to say , that if our fathers were in any degree too rigid and austere in pronouncing these things abso- lutely criminal and sinful , and in ...
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... young rebels have insolently cast on all the pious cares of their parents , and the forms of a religious education : but we hope better things of you , and that you have grown up from the lower class of instruction to some of the more ...
... young rebels have insolently cast on all the pious cares of their parents , and the forms of a religious education : but we hope better things of you , and that you have grown up from the lower class of instruction to some of the more ...
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... young christians to have such a friend as David ; Ps . Ixvi . 16. Come unto me , and I will tell you what God has done for my soul ? How happy is it to be placed amongst such acquaintance who will walk with you in the road to salvation ...
... young christians to have such a friend as David ; Ps . Ixvi . 16. Come unto me , and I will tell you what God has done for my soul ? How happy is it to be placed amongst such acquaintance who will walk with you in the road to salvation ...
Page 63
... young creatures ever been taught to retire from the world , and call upon God in secret ? And what num- bers also have always lain under such strait circumstances even from their childhood , that they are seldom able to find a retiring ...
... young creatures ever been taught to retire from the world , and call upon God in secret ? And what num- bers also have always lain under such strait circumstances even from their childhood , that they are seldom able to find a retiring ...
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... young efforts of reason , and have you then endeavoured to make them sensible of the important things of religion , and proceeded by degrees as their age would bear , to lead them into a larger knowledge of truth and duty ? Have you ...
... young efforts of reason , and have you then endeavoured to make them sensible of the important things of religion , and proceeded by degrees as their age would bear , to lead them into a larger knowledge of truth and duty ? Have you ...
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Page 515 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive ; Thou hast received gifts for men ; , Yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 203 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 514 - Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty ; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
Page 520 - And say unto them, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land : and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all : and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all...
Page 155 - LORD, from whom all good things do come ; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 556 - Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter : for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Page 324 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 59 - LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth ? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction : they have made their faces harder than a rock ; they have refused to return.
Page 22 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 569 - And he said unto me, Depart : for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.