Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... concern of each one's conscience in the sight of God . If there be persons to whom the lessons so derived are little more than simply this , " Just persevere ! " - how happy ! But to most of us there will be more accusing and painful ...
... concern of each one's conscience in the sight of God . If there be persons to whom the lessons so derived are little more than simply this , " Just persevere ! " - how happy ! But to most of us there will be more accusing and painful ...
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... concern and study must be applied directly to temporal things , in order that , on the whole , we may have the most benefit of our relations to this terrestrial scene . The particulars that might be specified will occur to every one ...
... concern and study must be applied directly to temporal things , in order that , on the whole , we may have the most benefit of our relations to this terrestrial scene . The particulars that might be specified will occur to every one ...
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... concern , whether he can say , more than all this is the interest I feel in " the things that are above . " When he is greatly pleased with some temporal possession , or success , or prospect , and his thoughts suddenly turn to the ...
... concern , whether he can say , more than all this is the interest I feel in " the things that are above . " When he is greatly pleased with some temporal possession , or success , or prospect , and his thoughts suddenly turn to the ...
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... concerned ) inflicted because of that goodness ; because he was in perfect antipathy to that moral evil which reigned triumphant , and raged at his interference . And all this was voluntarily encountered , not only by an original act of ...
... concerned ) inflicted because of that goodness ; because he was in perfect antipathy to that moral evil which reigned triumphant , and raged at his interference . And all this was voluntarily encountered , not only by an original act of ...
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... concerns . In other words , that as a Christian , he should be such , in the discipline of his think- ing , as some men are in capacity of worldly schemers , or scholars , or philosophers . And now , having insisted on it as the primary ...
... concerns . In other words , that as a Christian , he should be such , in the discipline of his think- ing , as some men are in capacity of worldly schemers , or scholars , or philosophers . And now , having insisted on it as the primary ...
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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...