The Christian Observer, Volume 14, Issue 1W. Wells and T. B. Wait, 1815 |
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... consideration of morals or humanity . The rich are oppressive ; the poor are knavish : it is craft against violence . Their avarice is connected with parsimony ; and hence , as from other causes , they are free from much of the luxury ...
... consideration of morals or humanity . The rich are oppressive ; the poor are knavish : it is craft against violence . Their avarice is connected with parsimony ; and hence , as from other causes , they are free from much of the luxury ...
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... considerations that encourage hope . It is of great importance that in a discourse on the end of the wicked , we shew nothing unfeeling , nothing which indicates the indulgence of a harsh or ferocious temper . " Sound speech " is not ...
... considerations that encourage hope . It is of great importance that in a discourse on the end of the wicked , we shew nothing unfeeling , nothing which indicates the indulgence of a harsh or ferocious temper . " Sound speech " is not ...
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... consideration of them , we must confess , with feelings of no ordinary kind . It would be an act of shallow hypo- crisy to profess towards them the mere cold feelings and disinterested regards of the actual critic . A de parted " friend ...
... consideration of them , we must confess , with feelings of no ordinary kind . It would be an act of shallow hypo- crisy to profess towards them the mere cold feelings and disinterested regards of the actual critic . A de parted " friend ...
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... consideration to the Christian minis . tèr . In resolving this question , a very clear statement of Gospel - truth is propounded ; after which the fol- lowing negative series of illustrations is offered , which we shall give entire ...
... consideration to the Christian minis . tèr . In resolving this question , a very clear statement of Gospel - truth is propounded ; after which the fol- lowing negative series of illustrations is offered , which we shall give entire ...
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... considerations may and do tend to strengthen and animate that love , but can never implant it where it does not previously exist , where it has not originally flowed from the " sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth ...
... considerations may and do tend to strengthen and animate that love , but can never implant it where it does not previously exist , where it has not originally flowed from the " sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth ...
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Page 163 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 288 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ : according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love : having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will...
Page 127 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 148 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 106 - When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 221 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.
Page 120 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 219 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 134 - We meekly beseech Thee, O FATHER, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in Him, as our hope is this our brother doth...
Page 287 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.