Sermons on the ParablesF. and C. Rivington, 1801 - 371 pages |
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... wisdom for the conveyance of simply moral truth ; we cannot account it less expe- dient for a teacher come from God , in order to communicate divine and spi- ritual truth , since there was a want not only of language to express , but ...
... wisdom for the conveyance of simply moral truth ; we cannot account it less expe- dient for a teacher come from God , in order to communicate divine and spi- ritual truth , since there was a want not only of language to express , but ...
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... wisdom , though exercised in a most dishonest way , our Lord instructs his Disciples , that they be wise to the generation that is to come , in disposing of the talents which their heavenly Master had committed to their stewardship , by ...
... wisdom , though exercised in a most dishonest way , our Lord instructs his Disciples , that they be wise to the generation that is to come , in disposing of the talents which their heavenly Master had committed to their stewardship , by ...
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... wisdom of divine Providence in suffering the mysteries of the spiritual kingdom to evade the understandings of the Pharisees , who were wise in their own conceits , as well as of the common people , who were prudent according to the ...
... wisdom of divine Providence in suffering the mysteries of the spiritual kingdom to evade the understandings of the Pharisees , who were wise in their own conceits , as well as of the common people , who were prudent according to the ...
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... wisdom , when their minds were totally divested of that prejudice , which had hitherto obscured their faculties of apprehension , and their eyes were fully opened to the light of all those gospel truths , which before that time they ...
... wisdom , when their minds were totally divested of that prejudice , which had hitherto obscured their faculties of apprehension , and their eyes were fully opened to the light of all those gospel truths , which before that time they ...
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... wisdom , till we attain the fulness of our stature in a future world . According to this is the reasoning of the Apostle ; When I was a child , I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child ; but when I became a ...
... wisdom , till we attain the fulness of our stature in a future world . According to this is the reasoning of the Apostle ; When I was a child , I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child ; but when I became a ...
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Page 49 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 221 - And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him ; Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 261 - And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Page 19 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 257 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room ; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Page 132 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 208 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law...
Page 188 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 339 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 166 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.