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... Should ye go after vain things , which cannot profit nor deliver , for they are vain . E have been profeffing to forfake your wan- dering life through the empty creation , and to turn to the Lord as your portion , as your foul's reft ...
... Should ye go after vain things , which cannot profit nor deliver , for they are vain . E have been profeffing to forfake your wan- dering life through the empty creation , and to turn to the Lord as your portion , as your foul's reft ...
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... should turn aside from the Lord ; and having done fo , they have the wide world to chufe upon , let them take to the right hand , or to the left , chuse the best they can pitch on , fome or all , that what is wanting in one , may be ...
... should turn aside from the Lord ; and having done fo , they have the wide world to chufe upon , let them take to the right hand , or to the left , chuse the best they can pitch on , fome or all , that what is wanting in one , may be ...
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... should likewife know that it is un- certain and infufficient , and therefore not worth the turning afide to from a good God . Befides , know this farther , that no creature can be to thee more than this God , from whom thou turnest a ...
... should likewife know that it is un- certain and infufficient , and therefore not worth the turning afide to from a good God . Befides , know this farther , that no creature can be to thee more than this God , from whom thou turnest a ...
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... should fall foul of one another . This the Mediator had to do ; this he did when he timeously stept in betwixt an offended God and . guilty finners , like the ram caught in the thicket , when Ifaac was lying bound on the altar , which ...
... should fall foul of one another . This the Mediator had to do ; this he did when he timeously stept in betwixt an offended God and . guilty finners , like the ram caught in the thicket , when Ifaac was lying bound on the altar , which ...
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Thomas Boston. them together , left they should quite seperate , and the reconciliation of the parties blow up . Thus Christ deals with finners , who otherwife would run away from God , and never come in terms with him . Thus he did with ...
Thomas Boston. them together , left they should quite seperate , and the reconciliation of the parties blow up . Thus Christ deals with finners , who otherwife would run away from God , and never come in terms with him . Thus he did with ...
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Page 114 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 161 - That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...
Page 290 - O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Page 61 - Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins : And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 294 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
Page 220 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 63 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined.
Page 297 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, every one from his neighbour.
Page 115 - I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick : but I will destroy the fat and the strong ; I will feed them with judgment.
Page 213 - This I say therefore, and testify in the LORD, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of GOD through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart : who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.