Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1861 |
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... action of this self - love ? It is not that the affection stays enclosed , acting in and upon our very self . The affection , then , is the going out of the soul . Now , how happy were it if the case were thus with us ; namely , that ...
... action of this self - love ? It is not that the affection stays enclosed , acting in and upon our very self . The affection , then , is the going out of the soul . Now , how happy were it if the case were thus with us ; namely , that ...
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... actions . It were , it is true , too vague and fanciful a kind of calculation to pre- tend to assign the proportion between any given measure of sin in external action , and a long succession of vain thoughts ; but it is quite certain ...
... actions . It were , it is true , too vague and fanciful a kind of calculation to pre- tend to assign the proportion between any given measure of sin in external action , and a long succession of vain thoughts ; but it is quite certain ...
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... actions of the mind , but often strong and grave ones ; tending powerfully to an effect . And but consider , how much of this order of thinking there is in human minds ! So that it looks like a quite minor vision of evils when we turn ...
... actions of the mind , but often strong and grave ones ; tending powerfully to an effect . And but consider , how much of this order of thinking there is in human minds ! So that it looks like a quite minor vision of evils when we turn ...
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... action by which we should get some good , it is that of our thinking spirit . Well ; let a man take a survey over the course of his thoughts for a certain time past ; we will say , his thoughts in those parts of his time in which his ...
... action by which we should get some good , it is that of our thinking spirit . Well ; let a man take a survey over the course of his thoughts for a certain time past ; we will say , his thoughts in those parts of his time in which his ...
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... his creatures . So that our judgments of his proceedings will be in analogy to those we form of the actions of men . But in doing this , there is need of great caution and reverential humility , for the 106 THE DESTRUCTION OF.
... his creatures . So that our judgments of his proceedings will be in analogy to those we form of the actions of men . But in doing this , there is need of great caution and reverential humility , for the 106 THE DESTRUCTION OF.
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Page 211 - So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him.
Page 215 - And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Page 368 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Page 83 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Page 31 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? 17 They zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Page 186 - And he prayed unto the Lord and said, "I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Page 175 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 300 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 148 - Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, yet being at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.