The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate1806 |
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... ject which has so immediate a re- ference to the necessary duty of self - examination . The government of the temper forms so striking a feature in the Christian character , that every thing which has a ten- dency to throw light upon ...
... ject which has so immediate a re- ference to the necessary duty of self - examination . The government of the temper forms so striking a feature in the Christian character , that every thing which has a ten- dency to throw light upon ...
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... ject to his hearers , is faithful and impressive . The following extract from this part of the sermon , though long , will require no apology to be made for its insertion . " Alas ! when we look abroad in the world , and measure the ...
... ject to his hearers , is faithful and impressive . The following extract from this part of the sermon , though long , will require no apology to be made for its insertion . " Alas ! when we look abroad in the world , and measure the ...
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... ject involving many points of doubt- ful disputation ; introductory to which , some just reflections occur on the importance of " comparing spiritual things with spiritual , that the Scriptures may be made to speak a consistent language ...
... ject involving many points of doubt- ful disputation ; introductory to which , some just reflections occur on the importance of " comparing spiritual things with spiritual , that the Scriptures may be made to speak a consistent language ...
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... ject into discredit , is to stamp it with a bad name , which by pre- cluding all judgment upon the case , is found , generally speaking , most effectually to answer the end for which it has been employed . " p . 58 . Some individuals ...
... ject into discredit , is to stamp it with a bad name , which by pre- cluding all judgment upon the case , is found , generally speaking , most effectually to answer the end for which it has been employed . " p . 58 . Some individuals ...
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... ject to be powerfully influenced by the appearances and character of the human world - a complicated , though often insensible tyranny , of which every fashion , folly , and vice , may exercise its part . To endea- vour to trace both ...
... ject to be powerfully influenced by the appearances and character of the human world - a complicated , though often insensible tyranny , of which every fashion , folly , and vice , may exercise its part . To endea- vour to trace both ...
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Page 289 - Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought.
Page 390 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Page 406 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 199 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth ; for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Page 131 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin...
Page 88 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 4 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; 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 388 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 346 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon/ and so ends my catechism.
Page 199 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.