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... instruction , and lay hold on understanding . Beauty and sublimity adorn its sacred pages , and invite the scholar ... instructions , that we may wisely order our conduct in time ; but their chief value must be estimated from those ...
... instruction , and lay hold on understanding . Beauty and sublimity adorn its sacred pages , and invite the scholar ... instructions , that we may wisely order our conduct in time ; but their chief value must be estimated from those ...
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... merely with a view to our own ease and inte- rest , but for the good of community . Opportunities of education and religious instruction , natural and acquired abilities , the calls of Providence and con- science 46 SERMON IH .
... merely with a view to our own ease and inte- rest , but for the good of community . Opportunities of education and religious instruction , natural and acquired abilities , the calls of Providence and con- science 46 SERMON IH .
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... instruction , to show how sudden and how great may be the changes either of human exaltation , or human abasement . Haman , on the one hand , through envy , experienced a most degrading fall ; and Mordecai , in consequence of his ...
... instruction , to show how sudden and how great may be the changes either of human exaltation , or human abasement . Haman , on the one hand , through envy , experienced a most degrading fall ; and Mordecai , in consequence of his ...
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... instruction should be improved by all mankind . The words of the text will admit of a varied and highly interesting explanation . The fox is an animal , noted for his cunning , craft , and mis- chievous tricks . Foxes used to injure the ...
... instruction should be improved by all mankind . The words of the text will admit of a varied and highly interesting explanation . The fox is an animal , noted for his cunning , craft , and mis- chievous tricks . Foxes used to injure the ...
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... various doctrines and duties of the gospel . Some have far more extensive opportunities of instruction than others ; yet , still , in all cases much depends on human activity . The light of creation , Providence , SERMON VIII . 99.
... various doctrines and duties of the gospel . Some have far more extensive opportunities of instruction than others ; yet , still , in all cases much depends on human activity . The light of creation , Providence , SERMON VIII . 99.
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Page 254 - Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write four-score. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely ; for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Page 254 - 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 314 - I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 146 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God, and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 254 - 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. And he called him and said unto him ; How is it that I hear this of thee ? give an account of thy stewardship ; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Page 90 - How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 336 - And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 219 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 269 - Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: (for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 139 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.