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are convinced of the truth of the doctrines just now mentioned , we shall be
thereby convinced that we are under an indispensible necessity to devote
ourselves to holiness . People , who draw consequences from our doctrines
injurious to ...
are convinced of the truth of the doctrines just now mentioned , we shall be
thereby convinced that we are under an indispensible necessity to devote
ourselves to holiness . People , who draw consequences from our doctrines
injurious to ...
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 69
Sometimes it is superstition , which inclines us to deify certain idols , and , after
having formed , to prostrate ourselves first before them . Sometimes it is
ignorance which prevents our perceiving the importance of some revealed truths
, or the ...
Sometimes it is superstition , which inclines us to deify certain idols , and , after
having formed , to prostrate ourselves first before them . Sometimes it is
ignorance which prevents our perceiving the importance of some revealed truths
, or the ...
Page 70
Let us divest ourselves of a party - spirit . Let us never determine an opinion by its
agreement or disagreement with what our masters , our parents or our teachers
have inculcated , but by its conformity or contrariety to the doctrine of Jesus ...
Let us divest ourselves of a party - spirit . Let us never determine an opinion by its
agreement or disagreement with what our masters , our parents or our teachers
have inculcated , but by its conformity or contrariety to the doctrine of Jesus ...
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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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