Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... speak ) in sentiments of interest , complacency , and desire , toward objects within its view . Love to self , indeed , is always said to be the primary and strongest affection of our nature ; and truly . But , then , what is the manner ...
... speak ) in sentiments of interest , complacency , and desire , toward objects within its view . Love to self , indeed , is always said to be the primary and strongest affection of our nature ; and truly . But , then , what is the manner ...
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... speak ) his pursuit of the nobler , does he solemnly intermit , in order that this may not be the case ? " How vigorously I am pursuing this - But what is that which I am leaving behind ? If I leave that behind , it will stay ! It will ...
... speak ) his pursuit of the nobler , does he solemnly intermit , in order that this may not be the case ? " How vigorously I am pursuing this - But what is that which I am leaving behind ? If I leave that behind , it will stay ! It will ...
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... speak , too , of a constitutional melancholy temperament in some persons , we are but expressing , probably , some myste- rious sympathy of the mind with its corporeal tenement . Now , in cases decidedly of this kind , expedients of ...
... speak , too , of a constitutional melancholy temperament in some persons , we are but expressing , probably , some myste- rious sympathy of the mind with its corporeal tenement . Now , in cases decidedly of this kind , expedients of ...
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... speaking . The most gross , and impious , and pernicious falsehood was pronounced ; what there was the most absolute evidence must be such . And it was taken for the language of a friend LECTURE IV THE RIGHT MODE OF GIVING AND RECEIVING ...
... speaking . The most gross , and impious , and pernicious falsehood was pronounced ; what there was the most absolute evidence must be such . And it was taken for the language of a friend LECTURE IV THE RIGHT MODE OF GIVING AND RECEIVING ...
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... speaking to them with the authority of God . And still , and always , is not this honest expression of truth one of the most difficult and hazardous things a friend has to do ? All which is but one more example to show that , in this ...
... speaking to them with the authority of God . And still , and always , is not this honest expression of truth one of the most difficult and hazardous things a friend has to do ? All which is but one more example to show that , in this ...
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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...