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... for analysing all fubjects in a scho- laftic manner , which was the too common fault of his contemporaries , often operated unfavourably against the elegance and his Preface Difcourfe I, On the Gift of Preaching By WILKINS.
... for analysing all fubjects in a scho- laftic manner , which was the too common fault of his contemporaries , often operated unfavourably against the elegance and his Preface Difcourfe I, On the Gift of Preaching By WILKINS.
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his contemporaries , often operated unfavourably against the elegance and forcible effects of his writings . In the present abridgment , it is pro- posed to preserve all the advantage of method , while the forbidding stiffness of it is ...
his contemporaries , often operated unfavourably against the elegance and forcible effects of his writings . In the present abridgment , it is pro- posed to preserve all the advantage of method , while the forbidding stiffness of it is ...
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... against it , instead of gaining them over to it . When a propofition is confirmed by positive proofs , the next thing to be done is the removing of fuch doubts and objections as may be made against it ; in the doing of which , fuch ...
... against it , instead of gaining them over to it . When a propofition is confirmed by positive proofs , the next thing to be done is the removing of fuch doubts and objections as may be made against it ; in the doing of which , fuch ...
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... against a man's intereft , either temporal , fpiritual , or eternal . Temporal , with respect to health , profit , honour , pleasure , peace , or fafety . Spiritual , the fubduing or avoiding of corruptions and temptations , the ...
... against a man's intereft , either temporal , fpiritual , or eternal . Temporal , with respect to health , profit , honour , pleasure , peace , or fafety . Spiritual , the fubduing or avoiding of corruptions and temptations , the ...
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... revengeful manner . This ufe fhould be more especially directed against those particular fins of the times and places 2 Tim . ii . 25 . where- wherein we live . And because in itself it may 26 THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER .
... revengeful manner . This ufe fhould be more especially directed against those particular fins of the times and places 2 Tim . ii . 25 . where- wherein we live . And because in itself it may 26 THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER .
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Page 289 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 105 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 114 - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 212 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 359 - They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Page 79 - ... for ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal...
Page 184 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 311 - And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
Page 103 - Lord having taken up his dwelling in it, ver. 16, 17.) we all with open face beholding as in a glafs the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image from glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 216 - Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.