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Page 66
The first of these objects is God : the second is our neighbor: and the third
ourselves. St. Paul is the author of . this division. The grace of God, that bringeth
salvation, hath appeared to all men ; teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and
...
The first of these objects is God : the second is our neighbor: and the third
ourselves. St. Paul is the author of . this division. The grace of God, that bringeth
salvation, hath appeared to all men ; teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and
...
Page 67
Let us then proceed to inquire why so many of us confine ourselves to a small
number of religious truths, and incapacitate ourselves for examining the whole
system. The fact is too certain. Hence, our preachers seem to lead us in obscure
...
Let us then proceed to inquire why so many of us confine ourselves to a small
number of religious truths, and incapacitate ourselves for examining the whole
system. The fact is too certain. Hence, our preachers seem to lead us in obscure
...
Page 80
8. to discountenance those who commit a crime as well as to renounce it
ourselves? The love of sensual pleasure makes us countenance people of the
most irregular conduct, whose snares are the most dangerous, whose examples
are the ...
8. to discountenance those who commit a crime as well as to renounce it
ourselves? The love of sensual pleasure makes us countenance people of the
most irregular conduct, whose snares are the most dangerous, whose examples
are the ...
Page 229
We are ignorant of ourselves when we imagine ourselves capable of a
permanent attachment, and when we think we shall always love, because we are
assured we love at present, we are the first to deceive ourselves. This man who
only at ...
We are ignorant of ourselves when we imagine ourselves capable of a
permanent attachment, and when we think we shall always love, because we are
assured we love at present, we are the first to deceive ourselves. This man who
only at ...
Page 242
We ought to desire life only to mortify sin, to practise and to perfect virtue, to avail
ourselves of opportunities of knowing ourselves better, and of obtaining stronger
assurances of our salvation. No, I can never persuade myself that a man, who is ...
We ought to desire life only to mortify sin, to practise and to perfect virtue, to avail
ourselves of opportunities of knowing ourselves better, and of obtaining stronger
assurances of our salvation. No, I can never persuade myself that a man, who is ...
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Page 269 - 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 140 - 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 99 - 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 268 - 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 98 - 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 269 - 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 102 - 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 287 - 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 292 - 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 124 - 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 |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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