A Sermon, Delivered to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, at Hackney, on the 10th of February Last: Being the Day Appointed for a General Fast |
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... rendered its ruin unavoidable . The fertility of the foil proceeded from a warmth communicated to it by fubterranean fires . And this , probably , joined to the eafe and indulgen- cies arifing from a rich foil , contributed to en- flame ...
... rendered its ruin unavoidable . The fertility of the foil proceeded from a warmth communicated to it by fubterranean fires . And this , probably , joined to the eafe and indulgen- cies arifing from a rich foil , contributed to en- flame ...
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... render them lefs extenfive and deftructive . You must , however , remember , that in the common course of things it is not to be expected , that in either of thefe ways God will manifeft his care of the righteous . There may be no ...
... render them lefs extenfive and deftructive . You must , however , remember , that in the common course of things it is not to be expected , that in either of thefe ways God will manifeft his care of the righteous . There may be no ...
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... render distress an occafion of joy and triumph . The worst that any calamity can do to a good man , is to take from him that which he does not value . His proper happiness is always fecure ; and the enemy that tears him from this life ...
... render distress an occafion of joy and triumph . The worst that any calamity can do to a good man , is to take from him that which he does not value . His proper happiness is always fecure ; and the enemy that tears him from this life ...
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... render calamity necef- fary , though , in this cafe , your country muft fuffer , yet care will be taken of you . Perhaps , you may be directed to fome means of escaping from the common ruin ; and a Zoar , or an Ark , may be provided for ...
... render calamity necef- fary , though , in this cafe , your country muft fuffer , yet care will be taken of you . Perhaps , you may be directed to fome means of escaping from the common ruin ; and a Zoar , or an Ark , may be provided for ...
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... renders to all their dues , honour to whom honour , cuftom to whom cuftom , and always acts to others as he defires that others would act to him . He is charitable and generous , as far as his abilities reach ; but he avoids all parade ...
... renders to all their dues , honour to whom honour , cuftom to whom cuftom , and always acts to others as he defires that others would act to him . He is charitable and generous , as far as his abilities reach ; but he avoids all parade ...
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Page 3 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 6 - Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou also destroy and .not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right...
Page 14 - You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
Page 14 - fide, and ten thoufand at thy right hand ; but it fhall
Page 15 - FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 7 - It must be allowed then, that the people of this nation do enjoy, as fully as in the nature of things they are capable of enjoying, and as far as they have the will and the virtue to enjoy it, the great advantage of being governed by laws of their own framing, or to which they give their free assent.
Page 15 - And the Lord faid unto Noah, Come thou and all thy houfe into the ark ; for thee have I ieen righter ous before main this generation.
Page 6 - Behold now I have taken upon me to fpeak unto the Lord, whifh am but duft and afhes.
Page 14 - He fhall call upon me,' and I will anfwer him': I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him and honour him.