The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 - Congregational churches |
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Page 69
... desire of worldly enjoyments and entertainments ; or they are engaged in some exercise and business , which diverts their minds . And so afterwards they are more careless than they were before . They are not so strict in attending ...
... desire of worldly enjoyments and entertainments ; or they are engaged in some exercise and business , which diverts their minds . And so afterwards they are more careless than they were before . They are not so strict in attending ...
Page 70
... desires to make his wife . God , for her committing adultery with other lovers , had threaten- ed that he would give her a bill of divorce , as verse second . " Plead with your mother , plead ; for she is not my wife , neither am I her ...
... desires to make his wife . God , for her committing adultery with other lovers , had threaten- ed that he would give her a bill of divorce , as verse second . " Plead with your mother , plead ; for she is not my wife , neither am I her ...
Page 88
... desire , yea what zeal , yea what revenge . " They were filled with sorrow , and with a kind of indignation , zeal , and spirit of revenge against them- selves for their folly , and so ungratefully treating God . When Christians are ...
... desire , yea what zeal , yea what revenge . " They were filled with sorrow , and with a kind of indignation , zeal , and spirit of revenge against them- selves for their folly , and so ungratefully treating God . When Christians are ...
Page 89
... desire . " There was a more than ordinary fear and dread of the like sin for the future , and more carefulness to shun it , and a more earnest desire of the contrary . The work of God in the heart of a saint after declension often ...
... desire . " There was a more than ordinary fear and dread of the like sin for the future , and more carefulness to shun it , and a more earnest desire of the contrary . The work of God in the heart of a saint after declension often ...
Page 98
... desire to exalt God , and to lie low before him . True comforts and joys , which are from the spirit of God , and are well founded , are wont to work after this manner . They excite an inward intense desire , that God may be exalted ...
... desire to exalt God , and to lie low before him . True comforts and joys , which are from the spirit of God , and are well founded , are wont to work after this manner . They excite an inward intense desire , that God may be exalted ...
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Page 303 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps, and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 13 - Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 318 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, which shall prepare Thy way before Thee. Terily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 187 - And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying; Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David ! my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Page 318 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 418 - Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, (which is King of peace,) without father, without mother, without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life ; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually.
Page 22 - 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 187 - Then Jesus answered and said unto her; O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Page 223 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 493 - Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory...