The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...A. Weir & A. M'Lean, 1770 |
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... case , faith many a poor Chriftian ; thus my foul languishes and droops from day to day . It is good news , indeed , that God both can , and will reftore my foul ; but fad that I fhould fall into fuch a ftate ; how unlike am I to what I ...
... case , faith many a poor Chriftian ; thus my foul languishes and droops from day to day . It is good news , indeed , that God both can , and will reftore my foul ; but fad that I fhould fall into fuch a ftate ; how unlike am I to what I ...
Page 199
... cases , but state your cafe to fuch as are learned in the laws , and are willing to get the ableft counsel you can to advise you . So are poor doubting Chriftians ; they carry their cafes from Chriftian to Christian , and from minister ...
... cases , but state your cafe to fuch as are learned in the laws , and are willing to get the ableft counsel you can to advise you . So are poor doubting Chriftians ; they carry their cafes from Chriftian to Christian , and from minister ...
Page 293
... case has been Before him , and he judg'd , that skin for skin , And all men have , they'll part with for their life . Then how unreafonable is this ftrife ? They that their fins do with their perfons fhip , Do for their fouls prepare a ...
... case has been Before him , and he judg'd , that skin for skin , And all men have , they'll part with for their life . Then how unreafonable is this ftrife ? They that their fins do with their perfons fhip , Do for their fouls prepare a ...
Page 301
... cases we ought not to reft in ge- neral complaints to , or of one another , but search what thofe fins are that provoke the Lord to inflict fuch judgments . And here I muft requeft your patience , to bear a plain , and close word of ...
... cases we ought not to reft in ge- neral complaints to , or of one another , but search what thofe fins are that provoke the Lord to inflict fuch judgments . And here I muft requeft your patience , to bear a plain , and close word of ...
Page 365
... case of many of you . O what a price and value did you then fet upon thole common mercies , which at other times have been flightly o verlooked ! And when you have feen no hopes of relief , bave you not looked fadly one upon another ...
... case of many of you . O what a price and value did you then fet upon thole common mercies , which at other times have been flightly o verlooked ! And when you have feen no hopes of relief , bave you not looked fadly one upon another ...
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Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 107 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 449 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 40 - Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD : for great is the glory of the LORD.
Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 373 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 450 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 393 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 74 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 425 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.