Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... attention - such hazard - such sad consequences in the event of failure ! happily the business is not mine . " It were well that in such a case , the thought should occur , " But there may be a business of mine ! Where have my ...
... attention - such hazard - such sad consequences in the event of failure ! happily the business is not mine . " It were well that in such a case , the thought should occur , " But there may be a business of mine ! Where have my ...
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... disciplinary toward our future life . And therefore we may , in regulated measure , desire the pleasing , and be anxious to avoid the painful . But think how much interest , and attention , and 14 THE SUPREME ATTACHMENT.
... disciplinary toward our future life . And therefore we may , in regulated measure , desire the pleasing , and be anxious to avoid the painful . But think how much interest , and attention , and 14 THE SUPREME ATTACHMENT.
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John Foster. But think how much interest , and attention , and care , are necessary to avoid the ills of this mortal life ! How much concern and study must be applied directly to temporal things , in order that , on the whole , we may ...
John Foster. But think how much interest , and attention , and care , are necessary to avoid the ills of this mortal life ! How much concern and study must be applied directly to temporal things , in order that , on the whole , we may ...
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... attention for a few moments . Though , in effect , and in a general way , innu- merable passages inculcate the kind of lesson which we are wishing to enforce . The thing proposed may be stated in very few words . In our course through ...
... attention for a few moments . Though , in effect , and in a general way , innu- merable passages inculcate the kind of lesson which we are wishing to enforce . The thing proposed may be stated in very few words . In our course through ...
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... escape from it ! You had not seriousness enough to go into a solemn temple ; but now that a hand not to be resisted has led you into it , is your sole attention to be fixed on the door ? -while TO CERTAIN MENTAL STATES . 27.
... escape from it ! You had not seriousness enough to go into a solemn temple ; but now that a hand not to be resisted has led you into it , is your sole attention to be fixed on the door ? -while TO CERTAIN MENTAL STATES . 27.
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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 370 - 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 271 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 146 - I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ; 18.
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.
Page vi - 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 mean while accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page vii - Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Page viii - And thou, profane wicked prince of 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 vi - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...