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Page 67
The more art and ingenuity there is in a machine composed of divers wheels , the
more necessary it is to consider it in its whole , and in all its arrangements , and
the more does its beauty escape our observation when we confine our attention ...
The more art and ingenuity there is in a machine composed of divers wheels , the
more necessary it is to consider it in its whole , and in all its arrangements , and
the more does its beauty escape our observation when we confine our attention ...
Page 68
Hence also it is that some doctrines , which are true in themselves , demonstrated
in our scriptures , and essential to religion , become errors , yea sources of many
errors in our mouths , because we consider them only in themselves and not in ...
Hence also it is that some doctrines , which are true in themselves , demonstrated
in our scriptures , and essential to religion , become errors , yea sources of many
errors in our mouths , because we consider them only in themselves and not in ...
Page 169
The considering of the circumstances that attended the text is a sufficient
determination of its end and design . ... The words are , however , capable of a
nobler and more extensive meaning , and in this larger view we intend to
consider them .
The considering of the circumstances that attended the text is a sufficient
determination of its end and design . ... The words are , however , capable of a
nobler and more extensive meaning , and in this larger view we intend to
consider them .
Page 170
1 We intend , by considering the subject specula-tively , to evince the truth of the
subject , the de-monstration of which is very important to us . By considering it
practically , we intend to convince yon , on the one hand , of the monstrous ...
1 We intend , by considering the subject specula-tively , to evince the truth of the
subject , the de-monstration of which is very important to us . By considering it
practically , we intend to convince yon , on the one hand , of the monstrous ...
Page 324
One chief cause of our erroneous notions of the perfections of God is the
considering of them separately , and not in their admirable assortment and
beautiful harmony . When we meditate on the goodness of God , we consider his
goodness ...
One chief cause of our erroneous notions of the perfections of God is the
considering of them separately , and not in their admirable assortment and
beautiful harmony . When we meditate on the goodness of God , we consider his
goodness ...
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Page 271 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 142 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 101 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 270 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more...
Page 100 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 271 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh ; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 104 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...
Page 289 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 293 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 126 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 1 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Editor | Gabriel Dumont |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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