The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author by John Norman Pearson, Volume 2James Duncan, 1830 |
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... does not credit their profession , but dishonours it . If they be patient under deserved suffering , their guiltiness darkens their patience : and if their sufferings be undeserved , yea and the cause THE FIRST EPISTLE OF FETER . 5.
... does not credit their profession , but dishonours it . If they be patient under deserved suffering , their guiltiness darkens their patience : and if their sufferings be undeserved , yea and the cause THE FIRST EPISTLE OF FETER . 5.
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... cause of them honourable , yet impatience under them stains both their suffer- ings and their cause , and seems in part to justify the very injustice that is used against them ; but when innocence and patience meet together in suffering ...
... cause of them honourable , yet impatience under them stains both their suffer- ings and their cause , and seems in part to justify the very injustice that is used against them ; but when innocence and patience meet together in suffering ...
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... cause , but entirely just in His person , altogether righ- teous ; and yet , condemned to death , and an opprobrious death of malefactors , and set betwixt two , as chief of the three ! I am , says he , the rose of Sharon , and the lily ...
... cause , but entirely just in His person , altogether righ- teous ; and yet , condemned to death , and an opprobrious death of malefactors , and set betwixt two , as chief of the three ! I am , says he , the rose of Sharon , and the lily ...
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... as one day , as our Apostle teaches us , in his second Epistle , ch . iii . ver . 8 . Our Saviour , in that time of his humiliation and suffering , committed himself and his cause ( for that is best 10 A COMMENTARY UPON.
... as one day , as our Apostle teaches us , in his second Epistle , ch . iii . ver . 8 . Our Saviour , in that time of his humiliation and suffering , committed himself and his cause ( for that is best 10 A COMMENTARY UPON.
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... cause ( for that is best expressed , in that nothing is expressed but He committed ) to Him who judgeth righteously , and the issue shall be , that all his enemies shall become his footstool , and He himself shall judge them . But that ...
... cause ( for that is best expressed , in that nothing is expressed but He committed ) to Him who judgeth righteously , and the issue shall be , that all his enemies shall become his footstool , and He himself shall judge them . But that ...
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Page 98 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 507 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Page 317 - In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them ; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 574 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 233 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 199 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 599 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 539 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.
Page 124 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 518 - OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.