Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... HUMAN LIFE . ECOLESIASTES Viii . 9. I applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun • · LECTURE XXIV . 227 237 PRACTICAL VIEWS OF HUMAN LIFE . PROVERBS XXIV . 32 . Then I saw and considered it well ; I looked upon it , and ...
... HUMAN LIFE . ECOLESIASTES Viii . 9. I applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun • · LECTURE XXIV . 227 237 PRACTICAL VIEWS OF HUMAN LIFE . PROVERBS XXIV . 32 . Then I saw and considered it well ; I looked upon it , and ...
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... human soul ! A charge which we cannot at our choice take upon us , or decline , since we have the soul , and the charge is inseparable . Sometimes we may have looked at some affair of a merely worldly nature , with self - gratulation ...
... human soul ! A charge which we cannot at our choice take upon us , or decline , since we have the soul , and the charge is inseparable . Sometimes we may have looked at some affair of a merely worldly nature , with self - gratulation ...
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... human intellect and genius , or the discoveries of science . Now in such points , it is seen how intimate is our relation to this world . And in some pro- portion to the intimacy and the number of our relations to this world , will it ...
... human intellect and genius , or the discoveries of science . Now in such points , it is seen how intimate is our relation to this world . And in some pro- portion to the intimacy and the number of our relations to this world , will it ...
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... human conduct . It will not be pretended that this is one of those feelings that ought to be extinguished as absolutely evil . It is what the best men have made no scruple of indulging and avowing ; the worthiest teachers , protesters ...
... human conduct . It will not be pretended that this is one of those feelings that ought to be extinguished as absolutely evil . It is what the best men have made no scruple of indulging and avowing ; the worthiest teachers , protesters ...
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... human spirit , truth , or " the truth , " be the proper agent or instrument , what an immense work there is for it to do ! For , are we not surrounded by a world of slaves ? applying the term in the intellectual , moral , and religious ...
... human spirit , truth , or " the truth , " be the proper agent or instrument , what an immense work there is for it to do ! For , are we not surrounded by a world of slaves ? applying the term in the intellectual , moral , and religious ...
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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...