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... weakness to complain , and folly to judge , of the methods of God's providence , what part must we take ? Must religion be senseless and stupid , and shut out all reflexion on the ways of God ? No : one way is open to us ; to trust and ...
... weakness to complain , and folly to judge , of the methods of God's providence , what part must we take ? Must religion be senseless and stupid , and shut out all reflexion on the ways of God ? No : one way is open to us ; to trust and ...
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With Some Account of His Life ... Thomas Sherlock. weakness and the infirmity of human reason : II . that a settled peace of mind with respect to God , must arise from a due contemplation of the great works of Providence , which God has ...
With Some Account of His Life ... Thomas Sherlock. weakness and the infirmity of human reason : II . that a settled peace of mind with respect to God , must arise from a due contemplation of the great works of Providence , which God has ...
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... weakness and want of thought to transfer this observation to God's works : this point enlarged on . But suppose the observation true , and the world to be now where it was at the beginning ; yet no conclusion can be drawn from thence as ...
... weakness and want of thought to transfer this observation to God's works : this point enlarged on . But suppose the observation true , and the world to be now where it was at the beginning ; yet no conclusion can be drawn from thence as ...
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... weakness , and to say with the Psalmist , it is mine own infirmity . PART II . The suspicions which incline men to doubt whether God does at all concern himself in human affairs having been con- sidered , we now come to consider the ...
... weakness , and to say with the Psalmist , it is mine own infirmity . PART II . The suspicions which incline men to doubt whether God does at all concern himself in human affairs having been con- sidered , we now come to consider the ...
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... , a fact is assumed of which there is no proof , that the sufferers are righteous and innocent : hence it is a great weakness and infirmity to complain against Provi- dence in such a case . The characters of men DISCOURSE XXV . 9.
... , a fact is assumed of which there is no proof , that the sufferers are righteous and innocent : hence it is a great weakness and infirmity to complain against Provi- dence in such a case . The characters of men DISCOURSE XXV . 9.
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Page 8 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Page 461 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 228 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 323 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 474 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 14 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 416 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 359 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 323 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 346 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.