Sermons on several subjects, publ. by B. Porteus and G. Stinton, Volume 2 |
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... Happiness can be enjoyed only by Souls exalted to a Capacity of it ; purged from every Thing mean and base , and , by generous and ho- nourable Difpofitions , made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light " . The ...
... Happiness can be enjoyed only by Souls exalted to a Capacity of it ; purged from every Thing mean and base , and , by generous and ho- nourable Difpofitions , made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light " . The ...
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... Reafon , deftructive to our Happiness . And it is furprizing , that they , who have any Rightness of Mind , can fail either to discern or to reflect , what Mean- nefs 1 nefs it is to make these Things the Business 12 SERMON I.
... Reafon , deftructive to our Happiness . And it is furprizing , that they , who have any Rightness of Mind , can fail either to discern or to reflect , what Mean- nefs 1 nefs it is to make these Things the Business 12 SERMON I.
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... Happiness to depend on ; the Prefervation of true Religion , and confequently of Virtue , in Oppofition to the fuperftitious Follies , and shocking Vices , of the Nations round them . To To promote this End , the ve- nerable Chief ...
... Happiness to depend on ; the Prefervation of true Religion , and confequently of Virtue , in Oppofition to the fuperftitious Follies , and shocking Vices , of the Nations round them . To To promote this End , the ve- nerable Chief ...
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... Happiness in this . Too many indeed appear to think the latter Point , at least , a very clear one . But remem- ber , the Inquiry is , not merely , what will 1 Kings , xviii .. 21 . afford afford us most Pleasure juft at the prefent ...
... Happiness in this . Too many indeed appear to think the latter Point , at least , a very clear one . But remem- ber , the Inquiry is , not merely , what will 1 Kings , xviii .. 21 . afford afford us most Pleasure juft at the prefent ...
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... Happiness must be placed , not in the Merit , either of our own good Works , for without the Grace of the Holy Spirit we cannot do any ; or of our own Repentance , for being forry that we have finned is not being inno- cent ; but folely ...
... Happiness must be placed , not in the Merit , either of our own good Works , for without the Grace of the Holy Spirit we cannot do any ; or of our own Repentance , for being forry that we have finned is not being inno- cent ; but folely ...
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Page 114 - And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page i - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 387 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Page 383 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 164 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 352 - This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach: We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
Page iii - I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write unto you ; which thing is true in him and in you : because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
Page 193 - Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Page 232 - Elihu saith, accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor ; for they are all the work of his hands.
Page i - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think