Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil...: To which is Pretixed, a View of His CharacterS.T. Armstrong, 1817 - 271 pages |
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Page 106 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Page 231 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching...
Page 265 - But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Page 269 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 193 - If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no meat while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 267 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 269 - As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Page 185 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 120 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - there let them lie ; you shall hear more about them another time, but say no more about them now.' Some days after, I bought her a box full of larger beads, and toys of the same kind. When I returned home, I opened the treasure and set it before her ; she burst into tears^ with ecstasy. 'Those, my child...