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... hopes of a better life after death . So that no man can live happily , if he lives like a man , with his thoughts ... fears of death , fears nothing else in excess , but God and fear is so troublesome a passion , that no- thing is more ...
... hopes of a better life after death . So that no man can live happily , if he lives like a man , with his thoughts ... fears of death , fears nothing else in excess , but God and fear is so troublesome a passion , that no- thing is more ...
Page 101
... hopes and expectation s of a better life are , in most cases , the safest ret : eat ; a man may bear his present ... fears and terrors of death , have nothing to sup- port them under present miseries . The next world , CONCERNING DEATH . 101.
... hopes and expectation s of a better life are , in most cases , the safest ret : eat ; a man may bear his present ... fears and terrors of death , have nothing to sup- port them under present miseries . The next world , CONCERNING DEATH . 101.
Page 162
... hopes of long life gives great advantage to the temptations of this world , so they weaken the hopes and fears of the other world : they strengthen our temptations and weaken us , which must needs be of very fatal consequence to us in ...
... hopes of long life gives great advantage to the temptations of this world , so they weaken the hopes and fears of the other world : they strengthen our temptations and weaken us , which must needs be of very fatal consequence to us in ...
Page 178
... hopes , that God has forgiven him , and received him into favor for the sake of Christ ; thus he ought to do no otherwise and while he is terrified with the fears of hell , he has little stomach to the necessary affairs and business of ...
... hopes , that God has forgiven him , and received him into favor for the sake of Christ ; thus he ought to do no otherwise and while he is terrified with the fears of hell , he has little stomach to the necessary affairs and business of ...
Page 185
... hopes and fears of another world , and the uncertainty of your living here , will not conquer these flattering temptations , and make men serious- ly religious , as those who must certainly die , and go into another world , and they ...
... hopes and fears of another world , and the uncertainty of your living here , will not conquer these flattering temptations , and make men serious- ly religious , as those who must certainly die , and go into another world , and they ...
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Page 92 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 199 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. And as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
Page 54 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 157 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 233 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds; to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life ; but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 109 - My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 104 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 169 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also : for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 209 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Page 201 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.