A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year: Fitted to the Great Necessities, and for the Supplying the Want of Preaching in Many Parts of this Nation : with Twelve Sermons on Various Subjects, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 - Clergy |
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... less , and so charity was lessened ; and heresies crept in , and then faith began to be sullied ; and pride crept in , and then men snatched at offices , not for the work , but for the dignity ; and then they served themselves more than ...
... less , and so charity was lessened ; and heresies crept in , and then faith began to be sullied ; and pride crept in , and then men snatched at offices , not for the work , but for the dignity ; and then they served themselves more than ...
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... less contrition than all that he had observed them to make in many years before . For so the canes of Egypt , when they newly arise from their bed of mud and slime of Nilus , start up into an equal and continual length , and are ...
... less contrition than all that he had observed them to make in many years before . For so the canes of Egypt , when they newly arise from their bed of mud and slime of Nilus , start up into an equal and continual length , and are ...
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... less and less , -till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perse- verance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses ; light and useless as the tufted feathers upon the cane , every wind can play with it and abuse it ...
... less and less , -till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perse- verance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses ; light and useless as the tufted feathers upon the cane , every wind can play with it and abuse it ...
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... less apt to anger , or to scorn him that snatches him rudely from the flames of hell , he is virtue's confessor , and suffers these lesser stripes for that interest , which will end in spiritual and eternal bene- dictions . 66 They who ...
... less apt to anger , or to scorn him that snatches him rudely from the flames of hell , he is virtue's confessor , and suffers these lesser stripes for that interest , which will end in spiritual and eternal bene- dictions . 66 They who ...
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... less wholesome part , because it is delicious , serves a low end of sense or interest , but serves not God at all , and as little does benefit to his soul . Such a person is like Homer's bird , deplumes himself to feather all the naked ...
... less wholesome part , because it is delicious , serves a low end of sense or interest , but serves not God at all , and as little does benefit to his soul . Such a person is like Homer's bird , deplumes himself to feather all the naked ...
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Page 343 - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Page 483 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page ccxcix - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 488 - BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 97 - Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms.
Page ccc - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men ; for all men have not faith.
Page 279 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath: tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 545 - Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their Labours, and their Works do follow them.