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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... ruins of our fallen state ; would fit us for the glories of his immediate presence , for solid enjoy- ment and prosperity here , and for the happiness of Heaven ? When we look at these holy and unexceptionable rules of thought and ...
... ruins of our fallen state ; would fit us for the glories of his immediate presence , for solid enjoy- ment and prosperity here , and for the happiness of Heaven ? When we look at these holy and unexceptionable rules of thought and ...
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... ruined and helpless state , to consider the vast distance at which we stand from the wisdom of the Gospel , from perfect rectitude , from fitness for Heaven ? Is it not evident that if we be left to our own strength alone , this ...
... ruined and helpless state , to consider the vast distance at which we stand from the wisdom of the Gospel , from perfect rectitude , from fitness for Heaven ? Is it not evident that if we be left to our own strength alone , this ...
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... ruin , must be the consequence . The consideration of these points will , I hope , be sufficient to convince you , of the danger , the folly , and the guilt of delay in religion ; and will induce you to imitate the conduct of the ...
... ruin , must be the consequence . The consideration of these points will , I hope , be sufficient to convince you , of the danger , the folly , and the guilt of delay in religion ; and will induce you to imitate the conduct of the ...
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... ruin themselves ? What should we think of the man , who put off the whole business of the year , to the very last day of that year , particularly , if the happiness of the next year depended upon it ? Should we not think that he was try ...
... ruin themselves ? What should we think of the man , who put off the whole business of the year , to the very last day of that year , particularly , if the happiness of the next year depended upon it ? Should we not think that he was try ...
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... ruin . And what is worse , we find it so easy , and we feel it so safe , that we will not be persuaded it is dangerous - we dread the idea of being convinced of its danger , and we over- look , or shut our eyes upon that dreadful gulph ...
... ruin . And what is worse , we find it so easy , and we feel it so safe , that we will not be persuaded it is dangerous - we dread the idea of being convinced of its danger , and we over- look , or shut our eyes upon that dreadful gulph ...
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Page 380 - 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 253 - 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 364 - 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 173 - 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 376 - 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.