Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the Subject of the Celebrated Oratorio of Handel : Preached in the Years 1784 and 1785, in the Parish Church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1798 |
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Page v
... fuch repeti- tions are not improper in print . Many perfons read part of a book , who may not have opportunity or in . clination to read the whole . Should any one , by open- ing thefe Sermons at a venture , meet with a passage which ...
... fuch repeti- tions are not improper in print . Many perfons read part of a book , who may not have opportunity or in . clination to read the whole . Should any one , by open- ing thefe Sermons at a venture , meet with a passage which ...
Page viii
... fuch a law is broken , fuch a gofpel is defpifed , and when the great and glorious name of the Lord his God is profaned , would , by the occafion of his infirmities , often degenerate into anger or contempt towards those who oppose ...
... fuch a law is broken , fuch a gofpel is defpifed , and when the great and glorious name of the Lord his God is profaned , would , by the occafion of his infirmities , often degenerate into anger or contempt towards those who oppose ...
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... fuch cafes may in part de- pend upon conftitutional caufes . However , the time is a prefcribed time , and though not fubject to any rules or reasonings of ours , is limited and regulated by the wisdom of God . He wounds , and he heals ...
... fuch cafes may in part de- pend upon conftitutional caufes . However , the time is a prefcribed time , and though not fubject to any rules or reasonings of ours , is limited and regulated by the wisdom of God . He wounds , and he heals ...
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... fuch a precife time ; but I think we may take it for granted that they did not endure an hour or a minute longer than was ftrictly neceffary . The ex- preffion feems to be elliptical , and I apprehend the true fenfe is , that Jerufalem ...
... fuch a precife time ; but I think we may take it for granted that they did not endure an hour or a minute longer than was ftrictly neceffary . The ex- preffion feems to be elliptical , and I apprehend the true fenfe is , that Jerufalem ...
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... fuch a way , and at fuch a price ! Salvation is wholly of grace ; not only undeserved , but undefired by us , till he is pleafed to awaken us to a fenfe of our need of it . And then we find every thing prepared that our wants require ...
... fuch a way , and at fuch a price ! Salvation is wholly of grace ; not only undeserved , but undefired by us , till he is pleafed to awaken us to a fenfe of our need of it . And then we find every thing prepared that our wants require ...
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