Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... . In writing to a friend he described this engagement as being " much the kind of thing he could have wished ; " but added that the labour of preparing a single discourse was scarcely less than that necessary for five or six.
... . In writing to a friend he described this engagement as being " much the kind of thing he could have wished ; " but added that the labour of preparing a single discourse was scarcely less than that necessary for five or six.
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... kind of common- place ; but often it has had a better origin , such as the retired , contemplative , devout life of some good men . ( The language of religion has had a particular advantage in this respect , when it has come from ...
... kind of common- place ; but often it has had a better origin , such as the retired , contemplative , devout life of some good men . ( The language of religion has had a particular advantage in this respect , when it has come from ...
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... kind of lesson which we are wishing to enforce . The thing proposed may be stated in very few words . In our course through life , our minds are liable to be ( they actually are in succession and change ) placed in certain states of ...
... kind of lesson which we are wishing to enforce . The thing proposed may be stated in very few words . In our course through life , our minds are liable to be ( they actually are in succession and change ) placed in certain states of ...
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... kind of natural seasons in the soul ; somewhat parallel to the seasons and the climates of the natural world ; only not having their regularity and fixed order . They have their evils , and may be suffered to become great evils ; but ...
... kind of natural seasons in the soul ; somewhat parallel to the seasons and the climates of the natural world ; only not having their regularity and fixed order . They have their evils , and may be suffered to become great evils ; but ...
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... kind of nature he has to be acted upon ; - -a sad nature , truly , if he sees the fact to be , that the more its wishes are gratified the worse it becomes , if left to it- self ! Thus should we watch in order to see the practical proof ...
... kind of nature he has to be acted upon ; - -a sad nature , truly , if he sees the fact to be , that the more its wishes are gratified the worse it becomes , if left to it- self ! Thus should we watch in order to see the practical proof ...
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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...