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... EYE . Matthew xx . 15. Is thine eye evil , because I am good ? 411 SERMON XXV . A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENSE ; OR , THE CHRISTIAN ON HIS TRIAL . Acts xxiv . 16. Herein do I exercise myself , to have always a conscience void of offense ...
... EYE . Matthew xx . 15. Is thine eye evil , because I am good ? 411 SERMON XXV . A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENSE ; OR , THE CHRISTIAN ON HIS TRIAL . Acts xxiv . 16. Herein do I exercise myself , to have always a conscience void of offense ...
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... eyes is so hard and wretched ? The cause is sim- ply this , that the poor man I have been speaking of — for what I have said is true only of such- has led a Christian life , or at least has turned to God in earnest and repented of his ...
... eyes is so hard and wretched ? The cause is sim- ply this , that the poor man I have been speaking of — for what I have said is true only of such- has led a Christian life , or at least has turned to God in earnest and repented of his ...
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... eyes . Not that God , who is a spirit , either has , or is believed to have , hands and eyes , as we have : but this is said , to teach us that he sees and knows all our most secret actions , just as if he had eyes to see them with ...
... eyes . Not that God , who is a spirit , either has , or is believed to have , hands and eyes , as we have : but this is said , to teach us that he sees and knows all our most secret actions , just as if he had eyes to see them with ...
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... eyes , and you see them not , but are sliding sleep - bound toward them . Awake ! behold , the face of the Lord does not shine , but frown upon you . Any fear , any woe , any sting of conscience will be a blessing to you , which can but ...
... eyes , and you see them not , but are sliding sleep - bound toward them . Awake ! behold , the face of the Lord does not shine , but frown upon you . Any fear , any woe , any sting of conscience will be a blessing to you , which can but ...
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... eyes the wonderful works of God in Christ . Do I say this to discourage these poor unlettered persons ? Not so ; but to remind them that , if one way of improving their knowledge of Christ , the way of reading , is closed to them ...
... eyes the wonderful works of God in Christ . Do I say this to discourage these poor unlettered persons ? Not so ; but to remind them that , if one way of improving their knowledge of Christ , the way of reading , is closed to them ...
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Page 30 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 283 - Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness : by Whose stripes ye were healed.
Page 324 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Page 261 - What shall we then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us ? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things ? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth.
Page 113 - Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.
Page 424 - And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
Page 410 - And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Page 238 - Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters ! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they are gone away backward.
Page 237 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 331 - But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.