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... thankful for a spice of it , as the Lord's gift , and when rightly exercised it is valuable ; and I think I should make but an awk- ward minister without it , especially here . Where there is this sensibility in the natural temper , it ...
... thankful for a spice of it , as the Lord's gift , and when rightly exercised it is valuable ; and I think I should make but an awk- ward minister without it , especially here . Where there is this sensibility in the natural temper , it ...
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... thankful for them . You have taken leave of your favourite trees , and the scenes of your younger life , but a few years sooner than you must have done , if the late dispensation had not taken place . All must be left soon ; for all ...
... thankful for them . You have taken leave of your favourite trees , and the scenes of your younger life , but a few years sooner than you must have done , if the late dispensation had not taken place . All must be left soon ; for all ...
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... thankful for his connection : I find but few like minded with him , and his family is filled with the grace and peace of the Gospel . I never visit them , but I meet with something to humble , quick- en , and edify me . O ! what will ...
... thankful for his connection : I find but few like minded with him , and his family is filled with the grace and peace of the Gospel . I never visit them , but I meet with something to humble , quick- en , and edify me . O ! what will ...
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... thankful for the grace that has made you to differ ; be ready to give a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear ; but beware of engaging in disputes , without evident necessity , and some probable hope of usefulness ...
... thankful for the grace that has made you to differ ; be ready to give a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear ; but beware of engaging in disputes , without evident necessity , and some probable hope of usefulness ...
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... thankful to hear from you at your leisure . Be pleased to inform me whether you received the knowledge of the truth before or since you were in orders ; how long you have preached the joyful sound of salvation by Je- sus , and what is ...
... thankful to hear from you at your leisure . Be pleased to inform me whether you received the knowledge of the truth before or since you were in orders ; how long you have preached the joyful sound of salvation by Je- sus , and what is ...
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Page 342 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 493 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 527 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 561 - I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.
Page 375 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 545 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 545 - God : being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 582 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 341 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.