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... feel them sink in a manner below the path of truth , and be- ecome , as regards religion , comfortless and ob- scure ? In the first place then , my Christian friends , if you would be found in the way of the King , beware of what is low ...
... feel them sink in a manner below the path of truth , and be- ecome , as regards religion , comfortless and ob- scure ? In the first place then , my Christian friends , if you would be found in the way of the King , beware of what is low ...
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... feel to practical re- ligion ? If so , how melancholy a case is this ! We cling to the disease , and therefore spurn the remedy ; we dislike the light , because our con- sciences shrink from the disclosures which it would make to us ...
... feel to practical re- ligion ? If so , how melancholy a case is this ! We cling to the disease , and therefore spurn the remedy ; we dislike the light , because our con- sciences shrink from the disclosures which it would make to us ...
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... feel it to be so or not , we have here most con- vincing proof , that the dispensation of Christ is , by God himself , intended to be to us a dispensa- tion of joy it is so declared by the tongues of his angels and prophets ; and of ...
... feel it to be so or not , we have here most con- vincing proof , that the dispensation of Christ is , by God himself , intended to be to us a dispensa- tion of joy it is so declared by the tongues of his angels and prophets ; and of ...
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... feel when all the risk is over , and our object gained ! Let this feeling respect- ing transitory things , lead us to form some no- tion of that unspeakable joy which the spirits of the righteous must experience in paradise , on finding ...
... feel when all the risk is over , and our object gained ! Let this feeling respect- ing transitory things , lead us to form some no- tion of that unspeakable joy which the spirits of the righteous must experience in paradise , on finding ...
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... feel it in its momentous consequences ? Is our " Lord risen indeed ? " Did he resume the life which was taken from him upon the cross ? Did his soul come back from the place of the de- parted spirits ? Did his body burst the tomb in ...
... feel it in its momentous consequences ? Is our " Lord risen indeed ? " Did he resume the life which was taken from him upon the cross ? Did his soul come back from the place of the de- parted spirits ? Did his body burst the tomb in ...
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Page 130 - Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord ; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page xix - xl. 3—5. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall
Page 189 - yea, I judge not mine own self:" .... " He that judgeth me is the Lord: therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart; and then shall every man,
Page 189 - yea, I judge not mine own self:" .... " He that judgeth me is the Lord : therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart; and then shall every man,
Page 201 - I judge not mine own self:" .... " He that judgeth me is the Lord: therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart; and then shall every man,
Page 199 - I judge not mine own self:" .... " He that judgeth me is the Lord : therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart; and then shall every man,
Page 153 - Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Behold I have longed after thy precepts; quicken me in thy
Page 135 - to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong, shall receive for the wrong which he doeth; and there is no respect of persons.
Page 213 - JER. ix. 23, 24. 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
Page 213 - JER. ix. 23, 24. 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