Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... instance :-( 1 . ) any train of serious thoughts and exercises in the mind , having a reference to practical good , and beginning on one suggestion , one conviction , but at last attaining the ultimate effect , or result ; ( 2. ) a ...
... instance :-( 1 . ) any train of serious thoughts and exercises in the mind , having a reference to practical good , and beginning on one suggestion , one conviction , but at last attaining the ultimate effect , or result ; ( 2. ) a ...
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... instance , the last two years of our life . We can make some judgment of these last two in ccm- parison , and what is the sentence ? Is it , " The latter has been more of what in my best moments I have wished ? " " It has not left me ...
... instance , the last two years of our life . We can make some judgment of these last two in ccm- parison , and what is the sentence ? Is it , " The latter has been more of what in my best moments I have wished ? " " It has not left me ...
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... instances at least , would be , No ; I wish I were far better disciplined for the great Master's service . - I wish that I could say I am quite willing to leave , in perfect uncertainty , all events to him , being , I hope , by his ...
... instances at least , would be , No ; I wish I were far better disciplined for the great Master's service . - I wish that I could say I am quite willing to leave , in perfect uncertainty , all events to him , being , I hope , by his ...
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... instance , envy , -malice , -revenge , -a rebellious feeling against God ; such as these can be turned to no profitable account ; they are not like some natural evils which may , as poisons may , be made medi- cinal ; not so these moral ...
... instance , envy , -malice , -revenge , -a rebellious feeling against God ; such as these can be turned to no profitable account ; they are not like some natural evils which may , as poisons may , be made medi- cinal ; not so these moral ...
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... instance , the recovery of health , from great suffering and peril , or protracted languishing . This is generally a season of extremely pleasurable feeling ; but often suffered to be mere pleasure , tending to no use ; - the mere joy ...
... instance , the recovery of health , from great suffering and peril , or protracted languishing . This is generally a season of extremely pleasurable feeling ; but often suffered to be mere pleasure , tending to no use ; - the mere joy ...
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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...