The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields, Volume 6Clarendon Press, 1826 - Sermons, English |
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... concerned for their preservation , that he thought nothing too dear to save and secure them and foreseeing their fall from that terres- trial happiness which he originally designed them , notwithstanding the liberal care he had taken to ...
... concerned for their preservation , that he thought nothing too dear to save and secure them and foreseeing their fall from that terres- trial happiness which he originally designed them , notwithstanding the liberal care he had taken to ...
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... concerned himself about them , or not have concerned himself to that degree , as to make them the subjects of such a vast design . For all wise agents measure their designs by the worth and value of the things they aim at , and do never ...
... concerned himself about them , or not have concerned himself to that degree , as to make them the subjects of such a vast design . For all wise agents measure their designs by the worth and value of the things they aim at , and do never ...
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... concerned . 4. Let us consider the vast price which the holy angels put upon souls : for though they are the crown and top of all the creation of God , and do by their essential perfections border nearest upon him ; yet such is their ...
... concerned . 4. Let us consider the vast price which the holy angels put upon souls : for though they are the crown and top of all the creation of God , and do by their essential perfections border nearest upon him ; yet such is their ...
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... their faculties , would never have thought it worth the while to stickle so zealously in their affairs , and concern themselves so much about them : and thus our Saviour himself argues , Matt . xviii . 24 DISCOURSE XXIII .
... their faculties , would never have thought it worth the while to stickle so zealously in their affairs , and concern themselves so much about them : and thus our Saviour himself argues , Matt . xviii . 24 DISCOURSE XXIII .
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... concern themselves , as they do , about things which they had little or no esteem for . And thus you see at what a vast rate our souls are valued by the whole world of spirits : how from the highest to the lowest , those best and wisest ...
... concern themselves , as they do , about things which they had little or no esteem for . And thus you see at what a vast rate our souls are valued by the whole world of spirits : how from the highest to the lowest , those best and wisest ...
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Page 409 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 318 - Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Page 342 - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples : and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Page 245 - And I knew him not : but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 73 - God ; who will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every Boul of man that doeth evil...
Page 314 - That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Page 291 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 198 - Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech : and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail...
Page 274 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures ; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
Page 165 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions : for my name is in him.