The Works of Bishop Sherlock: With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &c, Volume 2A.J. Valpy, 1830 - Theology |
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... exhorting men from all these consider- ations to contemplate divine Providence ; whence they will see reason to confess their own weakness , and to say with the Psalmist , it is mine own infirmity . PART II . The suspicions which ...
... exhorting men from all these consider- ations to contemplate divine Providence ; whence they will see reason to confess their own weakness , and to say with the Psalmist , it is mine own infirmity . PART II . The suspicions which ...
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... Exhorting him to cast away all thoughts of death , is but bidding him not to see what is before him ; and if blind- ness and want of thought are securities against the natural evils of life , we must cease to be men , and to exercise ...
... Exhorting him to cast away all thoughts of death , is but bidding him not to see what is before him ; and if blind- ness and want of thought are securities against the natural evils of life , we must cease to be men , and to exercise ...
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... exhorting him not to ex- ercise his reason on a subject which of all others most nearly concerns him ? And is this a proper instruction to a reasonable creature ? It is bidding men not see what is before them ; as if blindness were a ...
... exhorting him not to ex- ercise his reason on a subject which of all others most nearly concerns him ? And is this a proper instruction to a reasonable creature ? It is bidding men not see what is before them ; as if blindness were a ...
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... exhort us to cast away all doubts , and to be certain and positive in all points of religion ? I know full well that this is no proper subject for exhortation ; but I will exhort you to be diligent inquirers after God . That you have ...
... exhort us to cast away all doubts , and to be certain and positive in all points of religion ? I know full well that this is no proper subject for exhortation ; but I will exhort you to be diligent inquirers after God . That you have ...
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... is he therefore possessed of Christian charity ? The parable of the rich man in Luke xxii . considered , and the true meaning of it inquired into . It is commonly supposed , from our Lord's warning and exhortation in DISCOURSE XXIX . 93.
... is he therefore possessed of Christian charity ? The parable of the rich man in Luke xxii . considered , and the true meaning of it inquired into . It is commonly supposed , from our Lord's warning and exhortation in DISCOURSE XXIX . 93.
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Page 228 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 323 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 474 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 461 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 14 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 416 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 359 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 323 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 346 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 261 - Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming...