Discourses on Personal Religion, Volume 2Ogle & Aikman, 1801 - Baptists |
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Page 35
... speaking of the kingdom of heaven , is indeed the leaft of all feeds , but when it is grown is the greatest among herbs , and becometh a tree , fo that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof * . Steadiness Matth ...
... speaking of the kingdom of heaven , is indeed the leaft of all feeds , but when it is grown is the greatest among herbs , and becometh a tree , fo that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof * . Steadiness Matth ...
Page 36
... speak properly , is rather a means to prevent the decay of religion , than to promote its growth and improvement . Grace and fin are in direct oppofition to each other . And could we fuppofe the Chriftian capable of wilfully indulg ing ...
... speak properly , is rather a means to prevent the decay of religion , than to promote its growth and improvement . Grace and fin are in direct oppofition to each other . And could we fuppofe the Chriftian capable of wilfully indulg ing ...
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... speaking , vicious , is very unbecoming a Chriftian . Have fome ob- ject of importance in civil life daily in view . Pursue it with attention . And take care that your hours of relaxa- tion and amusement be so conducted , and held under ...
... speaking , vicious , is very unbecoming a Chriftian . Have fome ob- ject of importance in civil life daily in view . Pursue it with attention . And take care that your hours of relaxa- tion and amusement be so conducted , and held under ...
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... speaking as is generally thought of our Lord Jefus Chrift , fays , He shall come down like the rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth . Now what I propofe is only , I. To illustrate this fubject , by fhewing you why ...
... speaking as is generally thought of our Lord Jefus Chrift , fays , He shall come down like the rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth . Now what I propofe is only , I. To illustrate this fubject , by fhewing you why ...
Page 78
... bleffed with thefe influences , will , in a greater or lefs degree , produce . Which leads me to speak , 4. And * Mark iv . 20 . + Gal . v . 21 . 4. And laûly , of that beauty and glory which 78 IMPROVEMENT IN RELIGION.
... bleffed with thefe influences , will , in a greater or lefs degree , produce . Which leads me to speak , 4. And * Mark iv . 20 . + Gal . v . 21 . 4. And laûly , of that beauty and glory which 78 IMPROVEMENT IN RELIGION.
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Page 100 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 185 - I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them ; and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all : and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 140 - Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Page 133 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest.
Page 6 - I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him ; yea, I have made him.
Page 126 - And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
Page 5 - God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he hath loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved) : and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus...
Page 145 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 164 - God blameless, giving all diligence to make your calling and election sure : add to your faith virtue : to virtue knowledge ; to knowledge temperance ; to temperance patience ; to patience godliness ; to godliness brotherly kindness; to brotherly kindness charity.
Page 14 - I -was alive -without the law once : But when the commandment came, fin revived, and I died.