Sermons, on Important Subjects of Doctrine and Duty

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Richard Oliphant, 1825 - 355 pages
 

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Page 275 - unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not. lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, behold, a man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 40 - done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of him, that calleth, It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 274 - Thus saith the Lord—Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches : But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandelh and knowelh me, that
Page 78 - the stature of the fulness of Christ; that we, henceforth, be no more children, tossed to, and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow
Page 109 - This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds ; having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Page vii - Isaiah iii, 10, 11.—" Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 217 - horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord, for my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no
Page 346 - the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ ; and to make all men see, what is the fellowship of the mystery, which, from the beginning of the world, hath been hid in God, who created all things in Christ;
Page 239 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him ;.for. they shall eat the fruit.of their doings. Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him ; for the reward of his hands shall be
Page 239 - stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. The mighty ■man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient. The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

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