Sermons, Volume 1Waugh & Innes, 1828 - Congregational churches |
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... continually surrounded , we are presented every day , hour , and moment , with innumerable mysteries . All these we admit without hesitation ; and to question them would be re- garded as the extreme stupidity of scepticism . All these ...
... continually surrounded , we are presented every day , hour , and moment , with innumerable mysteries . All these we admit without hesitation ; and to question them would be re- garded as the extreme stupidity of scepticism . All these ...
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... continually occur ring , nor to the truth of the declarations in which the exist- ence of such facts is asserted ... continual succession of mysteries . Yet no man in his senses ever thinks of denying a single fact in this immense field ...
... continually occur ring , nor to the truth of the declarations in which the exist- ence of such facts is asserted ... continual succession of mysteries . Yet no man in his senses ever thinks of denying a single fact in this immense field ...
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... continually by the doc- trines . These benefits are experienced and declared , even by those of the humblest character , even by children and servants ; and it is remarkable that those who have found difficulties in such passages of ...
... continually by the doc- trines . These benefits are experienced and declared , even by those of the humblest character , even by children and servants ; and it is remarkable that those who have found difficulties in such passages of ...
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... continually forced upon them , regularly , as well as easily ; and as regularly embrace polytheism , atheism , or nihilism . Without revelation , therefore , they become of course ignorant of God . As all religion has its foundation in ...
... continually forced upon them , regularly , as well as easily ; and as regularly embrace polytheism , atheism , or nihilism . Without revelation , therefore , they become of course ignorant of God . As all religion has its foundation in ...
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... continually form , unless when they are pleased directly to disclose them . " What man , ” says St. Paul , " knoweth the things of a man , save the spirit of man , " which is in him ? Even so the things of God knoweth no 66 one , but ...
... continually form , unless when they are pleased directly to disclose them . " What man , ” says St. Paul , " knoweth the things of a man , save the spirit of man , " which is in him ? Even so the things of God knoweth no 66 one , but ...
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Page 261 - Ye call Me Master, and Lord : and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 266 - And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.
Page 4 - My son, attend to my words ; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes ; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Page 518 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Page 249 - For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron : I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Page 424 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life...
Page 271 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Page 234 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 5 - 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.
Page 211 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.