Fletcher's Appeal to Matter of Fact & Common Sense: Or a Rational Demonstration of Man's Corrupt and Lost Estate, with the Address to Earnest Seeks for Salvation and an Appendix, to which is Now Added the Life of the Venerable Author, Compiled for this Work from the Most Authentic Source |
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... thing ? Is he bound to time and place ? Do I de- serve any thing at his hands but damnation ? I would here observe , that anger in particular seemed to be one of the sins I could never overcome . So I went on sinning and repenting , and ...
... thing ? Is he bound to time and place ? Do I de- serve any thing at his hands but damnation ? I would here observe , that anger in particular seemed to be one of the sins I could never overcome . So I went on sinning and repenting , and ...
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... things contemptuously tramp- led under foot ; even the restraints of decency were vio- lently broken through , and the external form of religion held up as a subject of ridicule . This general description of the inhabitants of Madeley ...
... things contemptuously tramp- led under foot ; even the restraints of decency were vio- lently broken through , and the external form of religion held up as a subject of ridicule . This general description of the inhabitants of Madeley ...
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... things new and old , as occasion required . To hear him without admiration , was impossible ; without profit , improbable . The unthinking went from his presence un- der the influence of serious impressions , and the obdurate with ...
... things new and old , as occasion required . To hear him without admiration , was impossible ; without profit , improbable . The unthinking went from his presence un- der the influence of serious impressions , and the obdurate with ...
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... things as the House of God , and become , to happy thousands , the gate of Heaven . When the members of any distant Church were represented , as exemplary for their faith , their zeal , or their love , he re- ceived the report of their ...
... things as the House of God , and become , to happy thousands , the gate of Heaven . When the members of any distant Church were represented , as exemplary for their faith , their zeal , or their love , he re- ceived the report of their ...
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... things . One young man , in particular , was so deeply affected by the discourses of this powerful preacher , that he immedi- ately resolved to consecrate himself to the service of God in the work of the holy ministry . Accordingly he ...
... things . One young man , in particular , was so deeply affected by the discourses of this powerful preacher , that he immedi- ately resolved to consecrate himself to the service of God in the work of the holy ministry . Accordingly he ...
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Popular passages
Page 115 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 153 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 231 - But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 420 - Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness; "I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Page 423 - Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 136 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 355 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 35 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...