Sunday-evening discourses; or, A compendious system of scriptural divinity, for the use of households: to which is added a visitation sermonLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828 |
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... mind the principles of piety , and the apprehension of the truths of the Gospel ; the judicious measures adopted at our Universities , for making a considerable portion of Biblical knowledge in the student essential to his attainment of ...
... mind the principles of piety , and the apprehension of the truths of the Gospel ; the judicious measures adopted at our Universities , for making a considerable portion of Biblical knowledge in the student essential to his attainment of ...
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... mind . It directs the atten- tion of the hearer more exclusively , and , perhaps , from the quiet of the scene , and the smallness of the circle , more successfully , to the great objects of his faith , and the proper duties of his life ...
... mind . It directs the atten- tion of the hearer more exclusively , and , perhaps , from the quiet of the scene , and the smallness of the circle , more successfully , to the great objects of his faith , and the proper duties of his life ...
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... mind , as not , occasionally at least , to abstract their thoughts from things present , * It would be desirable , perhaps , to read the subject , and the divisions , of each discourse , previously to the reading of the discourse itself ...
... mind , as not , occasionally at least , to abstract their thoughts from things present , * It would be desirable , perhaps , to read the subject , and the divisions , of each discourse , previously to the reading of the discourse itself ...
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... mind , than a conside- ration of the origin of ourselves , and all around us ; and of the future destination of Man ... minds of all those who are not among the most " brutish of " the people ; " it is , notwithstanding , the humiliating ...
... mind , than a conside- ration of the origin of ourselves , and all around us ; and of the future destination of Man ... minds of all those who are not among the most " brutish of " the people ; " it is , notwithstanding , the humiliating ...
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... mind , a " secret past finding out " -a scene wonderful , but un- intelligible : utterly beyond his power to explain , or even his capacity to understand ; for , as the patriarch Job truly speaks , " we " are but of yesterday , and know ...
... mind , a " secret past finding out " -a scene wonderful , but un- intelligible : utterly beyond his power to explain , or even his capacity to understand ; for , as the patriarch Job truly speaks , " we " are but of yesterday , and know ...
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Page 24 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
Page 60 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die : for God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 139 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 79 - For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 115 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth...
Page 179 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 178 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever : the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb. Moreover by them 'is thy servant warned : and in...
Page 122 - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God ; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Page 181 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Page 29 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself ; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.