Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... condition of our existence here , if things go right , a conclusion is better than a beginning . It is in the con- dition of our existence in this world , that this principle is founded . That condition is , that everything is passing ...
... condition of our existence here , if things go right , a conclusion is better than a beginning . It is in the con- dition of our existence in this world , that this principle is founded . That condition is , that everything is passing ...
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... conditions on which the sentence will be true , " Better is the end of a thing than the beginning . " And how exceedingly desirable that such might be the case with us , if we close this year on earth ! But this will not be by the mere ...
... conditions on which the sentence will be true , " Better is the end of a thing than the beginning . " And how exceedingly desirable that such might be the case with us , if we close this year on earth ! But this will not be by the mere ...
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... condition this ! And this must be the state of good men in a future world , else there would be temptation , trial , hazard , and the possibility of falling . But what a dreadful contrast to all this is our present state ! As one great ...
... condition this ! And this must be the state of good men in a future world , else there would be temptation , trial , hazard , and the possibility of falling . But what a dreadful contrast to all this is our present state ! As one great ...
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... condition , of our nature thus compounded and situated . Even in that case , there would seem to be required a special unremitted divine influence to preserve it right . How should there not be a constant mighty tendency to a wrong ...
... condition , of our nature thus compounded and situated . Even in that case , there would seem to be required a special unremitted divine influence to preserve it right . How should there not be a constant mighty tendency to a wrong ...
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... condition in which God has placed us . Some- times this language of excess has been , we may venture to say , a rather unthinking repetition of a kind of common- place ; but often it has had a better origin , such as the retired ...
... condition in which God has placed us . Some- times this language of excess has been , we may venture to say , a rather unthinking repetition of a kind of common- place ; but often it has had a better origin , such as the retired ...
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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...