Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley, Volume 7Charles Bradley 1822 |
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... chaff , I shall here institute a comparison betwixt grace and the most splendid gifts in the world ; and its transcendent excellency above them all , will evidently appear in the seven following particulars- . 1. The most excellent ...
... chaff , I shall here institute a comparison betwixt grace and the most splendid gifts in the world ; and its transcendent excellency above them all , will evidently appear in the seven following particulars- . 1. The most excellent ...
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... chaff and wheat ! How many upright hearts are now censured , whom God will clear ! How many false hearts are now approved , whom God will condemn ! Men have ordina- rily no clear proofs , but only probable symptoms , which , at most ...
... chaff and wheat ! How many upright hearts are now censured , whom God will clear ! How many false hearts are now approved , whom God will condemn ! Men have ordina- rily no clear proofs , but only probable symptoms , which , at most ...
Page 87
... chaff separated and burnt , or thrown to the dunghill . How bare and naked do the fields look after harvest , which before were pleasant to behold ! When the harvest - men enter into the field , it is , before them , like the garden of ...
... chaff separated and burnt , or thrown to the dunghill . How bare and naked do the fields look after harvest , which before were pleasant to behold ! When the harvest - men enter into the field , it is , before them , like the garden of ...
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... chaff ; and God's end in afflicting his people is , to separate them from their sins . " By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged , and this is all the fruit , to take away his sin . ' He aims not at the destruction of ...
... chaff ; and God's end in afflicting his people is , to separate them from their sins . " By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged , and this is all the fruit , to take away his sin . ' He aims not at the destruction of ...
Page 109
... chaff , being light and empty , is separated from the good grain into a distinct heap . Application . Men have their winnowing - days , and God has his ; a day to separate the chaff from the wheat , the godly from the ungodly . Such a ...
... chaff , being light and empty , is separated from the good grain into a distinct heap . Application . Men have their winnowing - days , and God has his ; a day to separate the chaff from the wheat , the godly from the ungodly . Such a ...
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Popular passages
Page 58 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: Thou greatly enrichest it With the river of God, which is full of water : Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 59 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 59 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 135 - They take the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.
Page 123 - The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Page 88 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 265 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 87 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man...
Page 87 - Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 40 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost : in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them : together with ver.