Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His Poetical Pieces. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life and Writings with an Elegiac Poem, and Large Contents, Volume 8H. Mitchell, 1796 |
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... never look what troubles threaten , but look to God who can bring good out of them , and can make darknefs light , and death life ; if you were thus looking to God , great trouble would give little annoyance . Hence alfo learn , That ...
... never look what troubles threaten , but look to God who can bring good out of them , and can make darknefs light , and death life ; if you were thus looking to God , great trouble would give little annoyance . Hence alfo learn , That ...
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... never a furer way for a man to gain his life , than to lofe it for faithfulness to Chrift . ( 2. ) Because a faithful man finds the Lord's favour better than life ; for , " In his favour is life , Pfal . xxx . 5 . Thy loving - kindnefs ...
... never a furer way for a man to gain his life , than to lofe it for faithfulness to Chrift . ( 2. ) Because a faithful man finds the Lord's favour better than life ; for , " In his favour is life , Pfal . xxx . 5 . Thy loving - kindnefs ...
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... never minding death ? But we will not be long here : let us be faithful for God unto death . 7. Hence fee how reproveable thefe are , and how dreadful their cafe is , who , instead of being faithful themfelves , are enemies and ...
... never minding death ? But we will not be long here : let us be faithful for God unto death . 7. Hence fee how reproveable thefe are , and how dreadful their cafe is , who , instead of being faithful themfelves , are enemies and ...
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... never do many unfaithful neighbours about you , yet you fo have a faithful God to deal with . What encouragement is it to be a faithful fervant , that you have a faithful Matter ? 1 Cor . i . 9. " God is faithful , by whom you are ...
... never do many unfaithful neighbours about you , yet you fo have a faithful God to deal with . What encouragement is it to be a faithful fervant , that you have a faithful Matter ? 1 Cor . i . 9. " God is faithful , by whom you are ...
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... never loft their feet , when they thought themfelves in hazard , and were diffident of themfelves ; but when God was good to them , and they thought their mountain ftood ftrong , this brought in a flip and a fall . If thou goeft through ...
... never loft their feet , when they thought themfelves in hazard , and were diffident of themfelves ; but when God was good to them , and they thought their mountain ftood ftrong , this brought in a flip and a fall . If thou goeft through ...
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Page 401 - This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? "Are ye so foolish?
Page 294 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Page 323 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 420 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 435 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 404 - Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began...
Page 390 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 356 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 100 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 471 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.