The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 1Crocker and Brewster, 1825 - Theology |
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... give an un- bounded loose to my appetites , and seek pleasure by every means , seldom or never find it . If , how- ever , there is any such secret in religion , why may not I attain it as well as my mother ? -I will im- mediately seek ...
... give an un- bounded loose to my appetites , and seek pleasure by every means , seldom or never find it . If , how- ever , there is any such secret in religion , why may not I attain it as well as my mother ? -I will im- mediately seek ...
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... gives me stronger hold of two points : -1st . God must be brought NEAR , to be lived on and fled to : 2d . Comfort , to be sensible to my heart , must spring from God's making Him- self sensible to me . There must be an Incarna- tion ...
... gives me stronger hold of two points : -1st . God must be brought NEAR , to be lived on and fled to : 2d . Comfort , to be sensible to my heart , must spring from God's making Him- self sensible to me . There must be an Incarna- tion ...
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... Give up THAT , and I should have no sleep to - night . All is pitch darkness without it - dark as a Socinian- dark as a Moralist . There is no light , but what Christ brings . " At another time , while attending him in the night , he ...
... Give up THAT , and I should have no sleep to - night . All is pitch darkness without it - dark as a Socinian- dark as a Moralist . There is no light , but what Christ brings . " At another time , while attending him in the night , he ...
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... gives me something to HOLD . I have learnt more within these curtains , than from all the books I ever read . I sometimes speculate on the idea of a soul's leaving the body , and wandering forth into the world of space ; but it is alone ...
... gives me something to HOLD . I have learnt more within these curtains , than from all the books I ever read . I sometimes speculate on the idea of a soul's leaving the body , and wandering forth into the world of space ; but it is alone ...
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... give Him credit for . He asks me for nothing but time and trust , in order to make the whole plain and gra- cious to my eye : ' No ! ' I : show it me now , and it sufficeth .'- ' What ! " saith He - ' Am I ALONE not to be trusted ? How ...
... give Him credit for . He asks me for nothing but time and trust , in order to make the whole plain and gra- cious to my eye : ' No ! ' I : show it me now , and it sufficeth .'- ' What ! " saith He - ' Am I ALONE not to be trusted ? How ...
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Page 234 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 49 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 216 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest ; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Page 69 - In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD.
Page 92 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 213 - 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 460 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 392 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 413 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 406 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.