Twenty-one Sermons on a Variety of Interesting Subjects: Sentimental and PracticalJoshua Cushing, 1803 - 387 pages |
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... doctrines , truths and duties which are revealed and inculcated therein . We fhall endeavour to confider these feparately , though they will naturally , and per- haps to the beft advantage , be , in fome inftances , in a de- gree ...
... doctrines , truths and duties which are revealed and inculcated therein . We fhall endeavour to confider these feparately , though they will naturally , and per- haps to the beft advantage , be , in fome inftances , in a de- gree ...
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... doctrines and precepts , and the miracles he wrought , they believed with all their heart that he was the Son of God , who was to come into the world . The body of the nation of Jews , espe- cially their teachers and leaders , the ...
... doctrines and precepts , and the miracles he wrought , they believed with all their heart that he was the Son of God , who was to come into the world . The body of the nation of Jews , espe- cially their teachers and leaders , the ...
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... doctrines , refpecting God and the ftate of man , the way of his recovery to the favour of God , to holinefs and true happiness , and in what these confift . He taught that God was fovereign and independent in beftowing his mercy on men ...
... doctrines , refpecting God and the ftate of man , the way of his recovery to the favour of God , to holinefs and true happiness , and in what these confift . He taught that God was fovereign and independent in beftowing his mercy on men ...
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... doctrine ; and fhall turn away their ears from the truth , and fhall be turned unto fa- bles . " And it has been obferved , that the prefent infide- lity and wickednefs which prevail in Chriftendom is particularly predicted in the Bible ...
... doctrine ; and fhall turn away their ears from the truth , and fhall be turned unto fa- bles . " And it has been obferved , that the prefent infide- lity and wickednefs which prevail in Chriftendom is particularly predicted in the Bible ...
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... doctrines and duties contained in it . We have great delight in reading and meditating on the Bible , efpecially at times , when the truths we find there are impreffed on our minds . We make the Bible the rule of our faith and practice ...
... doctrines and duties contained in it . We have great delight in reading and meditating on the Bible , efpecially at times , when the truths we find there are impreffed on our minds . We make the Bible the rule of our faith and practice ...
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Popular passages
Page 368 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 214 - He that believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Page 176 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 306 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: he Is my defence; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust In him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.
Page 92 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 339 - Hath not the potter power over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 367 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 147 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 147 - Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 305 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.