Sermons,T. Cadell, and W. Davies ... and W. Creech, Edinburgh., 1808 - Presbyterian Church |
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... hope is gone as to us . To us the sun no longer shines " with its usual brightness . No longer " cheerfulness invests the face of Nature . " On every object a sad gloom appears " to rest ; and every employment of life " is become an ...
... hope is gone as to us . To us the sun no longer shines " with its usual brightness . No longer " cheerfulness invests the face of Nature . " On every object a sad gloom appears " to rest ; and every employment of life " is become an ...
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... hope . While he feels his sorrows as a man , he should also study to bear them like a man , with fortitude ; and not abandon himself to feeble and fruitless melancholy . Let him have recourse to a strenuous dis- charge of the duties of ...
... hope . While he feels his sorrows as a man , he should also study to bear them like a man , with fortitude ; and not abandon himself to feeble and fruitless melancholy . Let him have recourse to a strenuous dis- charge of the duties of ...
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... hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for a long while severely tried by a variety of distresses , yet his condition was not left finally unhappy . On the ...
... hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for a long while severely tried by a variety of distresses , yet his condition was not left finally unhappy . On the ...
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... hope to make it appear , that the words of the text afford a most enlarged and instructive view of religion in all its chief parts . The Apostle pronounces charity to be the end or scope of the commandment , that is , of the law of God ...
... hope to make it appear , that the words of the text afford a most enlarged and instructive view of religion in all its chief parts . The Apostle pronounces charity to be the end or scope of the commandment , that is , of the law of God ...
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... hope . This deserves to be seriously considered by those who are apt to undervalue charity as an appen- dage of what they contemptuously call Morality ; while they confine true reli- gion to some favourite tenets and obser- vances of ...
... hope . This deserves to be seriously considered by those who are apt to undervalue charity as an appen- dage of what they contemptuously call Morality ; while they confine true reli- gion to some favourite tenets and obser- vances of ...
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Page 427 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 310 - I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 95 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 133 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 97 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 138 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 226 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 406 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 153 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith: or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching: or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 15 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could have borne it : neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; then I would have hid myself from him : 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.