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... give us , may make themselves wings , and fly away . How many are reduced in a few hours from plentiful circumstances to extreme necessity by fire or water ? Besides , if people do imagine themselves secure in an inheritance , a small ...
... give us , may make themselves wings , and fly away . How many are reduced in a few hours from plentiful circumstances to extreme necessity by fire or water ? Besides , if people do imagine themselves secure in an inheritance , a small ...
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... give a small sum of money in hand , upon security of enjoying a good inheritance in a few years after and shall he neglect to take proper care of his soul , to cleanse it from all im- purity , and to prepare it for the enjoyment of that ...
... give a small sum of money in hand , upon security of enjoying a good inheritance in a few years after and shall he neglect to take proper care of his soul , to cleanse it from all im- purity , and to prepare it for the enjoyment of that ...
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... give in exchange for his soul ? Time bears no proportion to eternity . The most exalted pleasures of this life , which at best are but of a short continu- ance , can never compensate for the loss of that happiness , which God has ...
... give in exchange for his soul ? Time bears no proportion to eternity . The most exalted pleasures of this life , which at best are but of a short continu- ance , can never compensate for the loss of that happiness , which God has ...
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... give us a new hope and title to that everlasting happiness , for which man was at first created but this is only to be hoped for on certain conditions * , namely , our lively faith , and sincere and hearty endeavours to obey his will ...
... give us a new hope and title to that everlasting happiness , for which man was at first created but this is only to be hoped for on certain conditions * , namely , our lively faith , and sincere and hearty endeavours to obey his will ...
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... give greater light unto men . And therefore the possibility of revealed religion is evident from the nature of God ... gives us some hopes of pardon upon our repentance , from the general notion of God's goodness ; yet it prescribes us ...
... give greater light unto men . And therefore the possibility of revealed religion is evident from the nature of God ... gives us some hopes of pardon upon our repentance , from the general notion of God's goodness ; yet it prescribes us ...
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Page 119 - As touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; which argument astonished the multitude, and silenced the Sadducees.
Page 58 - free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? • i
Page 19 - turally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil; so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore, in every person born in this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 276 - free ; and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh
Page 133 - a partaking of the body of Christ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ. The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual manner: and the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the supper, is faith*. And therefore
Page 271 - a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warned and filled ; not withstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit
Page 163 - What man is there among you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask -a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children ; how much more will your heavenly Father give good
Page 43 - than raiment ? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they ? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature ? And why take ye thought for raiment
Page 64 - that they will renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh ; to believe all the articles of the Christian faith; and to keep God's holy will and commandments, and to walk
Page 23 - any thing that detileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination* or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. And those only are the good and virtuous, who have kept themselves from the pollutions of this wicked world, and have led a life of piety and .renewed obedience toward God, and of love and charity