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... poor grievously oppressed and perse- cuted by the professed advocates of liberty : when turbulent men are all busily engaged at the work of reforming their neighbours , while their personal reformation is quite neglected ; when nominal ...
... poor grievously oppressed and perse- cuted by the professed advocates of liberty : when turbulent men are all busily engaged at the work of reforming their neighbours , while their personal reformation is quite neglected ; when nominal ...
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... is the way in which he proceeds in renovating every poor sinner who returns to him : first he awakens him by the Holy Spirit , next he moves and en- gages his affections towards him , and then makes him 44 SACRED PHILOSOPHY .
... is the way in which he proceeds in renovating every poor sinner who returns to him : first he awakens him by the Holy Spirit , next he moves and en- gages his affections towards him , and then makes him 44 SACRED PHILOSOPHY .
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... poor sinner's case be as desperate as it may , yet may he find some of those to suit his malady ; and Christ being the tree of life , the sum and substance , the beginning and the end of that book , and all the leaves thereof testifying ...
... poor sinner's case be as desperate as it may , yet may he find some of those to suit his malady ; and Christ being the tree of life , the sum and substance , the beginning and the end of that book , and all the leaves thereof testifying ...
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... poor Adam ! he had fallen into a state of reprobation , and sneakingly came forth from his fancied hiding place , and said , " I heard thy voice in the garden , and I was afraid , because I was naked , and I hid myself . " But , blessed ...
... poor Adam ! he had fallen into a state of reprobation , and sneakingly came forth from his fancied hiding place , and said , " I heard thy voice in the garden , and I was afraid , because I was naked , and I hid myself . " But , blessed ...
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... poor Job with boils , but he must not touch his life - no , he is a chained enemy . Thus he was permitted , by his infernal craft , so to debauch the will and under- standing of a portion of the human race , that , in their hellish rage ...
... poor Job with boils , but he must not touch his life - no , he is a chained enemy . Thus he was permitted , by his infernal craft , so to debauch the will and under- standing of a portion of the human race , that , in their hellish rage ...
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Page 82 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 60 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 49 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh.
Page 150 - Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Page 65 - Altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the Altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 122 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition...
Page 69 - For he saith to Moses; I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Page 148 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains ; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand ? Rev.
Page 87 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
Page 68 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?