The Southern Preacher: A Collection of Sermons, from the Manuscripts of Several Eminent Ministers of the Gospel Residing in the Southern States. Carefully Selected from the Original Manuscripts ... Together with a Few Post-humous Sermons, from the Manuscripts of Eminent Deceased Ministers, Who, when Living, Had Resided in the Southern States. Carefully Selected from the Original Manuscripts ... |
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... morals and religion , too perfect for our nature . Thence an argument has been deduced , that they could not have been derived from Heaven ; as it is said , that it would be , in a proper sense , unreasonable for us , to be expected and ...
... morals and religion , too perfect for our nature . Thence an argument has been deduced , that they could not have been derived from Heaven ; as it is said , that it would be , in a proper sense , unreasonable for us , to be expected and ...
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... moral strength , for the fulfilment of the law , were precisely the same in all men , it might be supposed possible to frame the rules for the direction of our conduct , according to this degree . But is it not probable , may we not ...
... moral strength , for the fulfilment of the law , were precisely the same in all men , it might be supposed possible to frame the rules for the direction of our conduct , according to this degree . But is it not probable , may we not ...
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... moral weak- ness which he has contracted by the wickedness of his life . Is not all this too inconsistent , and almost too fu- tile for our serious consideration ? And yet it is the direct and necessary consequence of the plea we are so ...
... moral weak- ness which he has contracted by the wickedness of his life . Is not all this too inconsistent , and almost too fu- tile for our serious consideration ? And yet it is the direct and necessary consequence of the plea we are so ...
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... moral excellence , beyond what the law of God would require . If it be proportioned to the strength of the in- dividual , then the quantity of virtue which every one is to practice , must be left open , to his own vague and in- terested ...
... moral excellence , beyond what the law of God would require . If it be proportioned to the strength of the in- dividual , then the quantity of virtue which every one is to practice , must be left open , to his own vague and in- terested ...
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... moral guilt , and a conviction , that without the mercy of God extended to us , through Jesus Christ , we are with- out hope ? The atonement which Christ was to make for sin upon the Cross , the obedience he was to pay in our stead ...
... moral guilt , and a conviction , that without the mercy of God extended to us , through Jesus Christ , we are with- out hope ? The atonement which Christ was to make for sin upon the Cross , the obedience he was to pay in our stead ...
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Page 372 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 245 - And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zaccheus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house.
Page 356 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all...
Page ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 165 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 69 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Page iv - 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 21 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 124 - BLESS the LORD, O my soul : And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, 0 my soul, And forget not all his benefits : Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 368 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.