The Works of Francis Bragge, B.D. Vicar of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and Prebendary of Lincoln: On the parables of Our LordUniversity Press, 1833 - Theology |
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... mercy didst endow the first planters of thy holy gospel with such miraculous powers as should demonstrate the religion they taught to be from God ; whereby all nations came to the knowledge of that salvation which thou didst purchase ...
... mercy didst endow the first planters of thy holy gospel with such miraculous powers as should demonstrate the religion they taught to be from God ; whereby all nations came to the knowledge of that salvation which thou didst purchase ...
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... mercy as you do ; " and grudge , because God is pleased to make others happy as well as you ? This is vile indeed ! ” 66 So the first shall be last : those that were first called into the church of Christ , as the people of the Jews ...
... mercy as you do ; " and grudge , because God is pleased to make others happy as well as you ? This is vile indeed ! ” 66 So the first shall be last : those that were first called into the church of Christ , as the people of the Jews ...
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... mercy , would have been the entrance into death eternal ! And all this too they entailed upon their wretched offspring . What a dismal alteration was here , as the just punishment of ingratitude and disobedience to so good a God ! But ...
... mercy , would have been the entrance into death eternal ! And all this too they entailed upon their wretched offspring . What a dismal alteration was here , as the just punishment of ingratitude and disobedience to so good a God ! But ...
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... mercy spread wide open to receive all the world ; then appeared that wonderful grace of God , which brought salvation to all men that would accept it , and comply with those reason- able and easy terms upon which it was offered to them ...
... mercy spread wide open to receive all the world ; then appeared that wonderful grace of God , which brought salvation to all men that would accept it , and comply with those reason- able and easy terms upon which it was offered to them ...
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... mercy , though it is the eleventh hour , the latter end of his life , before he complies with his Saviour's call to re- pentance and a holy conversation : for though his refusing so long hath added very much to his guilt , and made his ...
... mercy , though it is the eleventh hour , the latter end of his life , before he complies with his Saviour's call to re- pentance and a holy conversation : for though his refusing so long hath added very much to his guilt , and made his ...
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Page 245 - Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig: to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Page 28 - And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Page 28 - And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market place, and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right, I will give you.
Page 83 - Hear another parable : There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country : And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Page 112 - Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34 for the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 83 - But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. "And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Page 245 - AND he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward ; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Page 32 - But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more ; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Page 1 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 271 - And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?