The Hope of the GospelA collection of 12 sermons on New Testament texts. |
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... causes of their discomfort are of all kinds , and the degrees of it reach from simple uneasiness to a misery such as makes annihilation the highest hope of the sufferer who can persuade ... cause of their misery 2 The Hope of the Gospel.
... causes of their discomfort are of all kinds , and the degrees of it reach from simple uneasiness to a misery such as makes annihilation the highest hope of the sufferer who can persuade ... cause of their misery 2 The Hope of the Gospel.
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... cause of the shape it takes , not of the misery itself ; for , when one apparent cause is removed , another at once succeeds . The real cause of his trouble is a something the man has not perhaps recognized as even existent ; in any ...
... cause of the shape it takes , not of the misery itself ; for , when one apparent cause is removed , another at once succeeds . The real cause of his trouble is a something the man has not perhaps recognized as even existent ; in any ...
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... cause ; the pain at least tends to the healing of the breach . The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained : that would be to cast out of window the medicine of cure while yet the ...
... cause ; the pain at least tends to the healing of the breach . The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained : that would be to cast out of window the medicine of cure while yet the ...
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... those pervading his thoughts and ruling his conduct ; the sins he keeps doing , and will not give up ; the sins he is called to abandon , and clings to ; the same sins which are the cause of his misery , though Salvation from Sin 9.
... those pervading his thoughts and ruling his conduct ; the sins he keeps doing , and will not give up ; the sins he is called to abandon , and clings to ; the same sins which are the cause of his misery , though Salvation from Sin 9.
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George MacDonald. sins which are the cause of his misery , though he may not know it - these are they for which he is ... causing us to desire wrongly , act wrongly , or , where we try not to act wrongly , yet making it impossible for us ...
George MacDonald. sins which are the cause of his misery , though he may not know it - these are they for which he is ... causing us to desire wrongly , act wrongly , or , where we try not to act wrongly , yet making it impossible for us ...
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Page 193 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Page 60 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 152 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes : even so, Father ; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 40 - And when they saw him, they were amazed : and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Page 185 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven: therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 176 - Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Page 54 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Page 172 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Page 152 - All things are delivered unto Me of My Father : and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father ; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.
Page 147 - Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.