The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3

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Crocker and Brewster, 1825 - Theology
 

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Page 451 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men : for I have not shunned to declare unto you ALL THE COUNSEL OF GOD. And what have I declared that counsel of God to be .' —All the curious distinctions of the schools?—All the peculiarities insisted on so strongly by different
Page 90 - The pretence for lingering is often very plausible, when the principle is bad. Jesus, the judge of motives, said unto him, ' Let the dead bury their dead : but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.' Another said,' Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go and bid them farewell, which are at home
Page 69 - Our Lord had said, v. 35,' Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord when he will return from the wedding: that, when he cometli and knocketh, they may open to him
Page 160 - At least THIS is certain") ' They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the
Page 80 - Be ye ready also : For the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not.' II. To his PARISHIONERS, also, I would address the feelings of my heart. I speak more especially to such as have not duly appreciated the ministry of their late worthy Pastor. The worn-out body of him who long entreated
Page 22 - safety is of the Lord.' Thus went David to meet his enemy: ' Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but 1 come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 61 - abide in Him; thai when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming,' 1 John ii. 28; but, receiving then the full accomplishment of those promises for which we now wait, may we join in proclaiming, "THE KINGDOMS
Page 287 - enlangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time : the clock-weight goes down slowly, yet it draws all the work with it.
Page 308 - means of access to the public mind. And what is their aim ?—What are their pretensions ?—That they' will have neither Lord nor King over them. But, verily, one is their King : whose name, in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon ; but, in the Greek tongue, he is
Page 87 - when he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful unto him, and they brought him forth., and set him without the city. IT has been often asked, "Whence came evil ?' : Wise men, however, will see, after the fruitless

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