Discourses on Various Points of Christian Faith and Practice: Most of which Were Delivered in the Chapel of the Oratoire in Paris in the Spring of M.DCCC.XVIP.W. Gallaudet, 1818 - 239 pages |
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... regard to our temporal interests , we also apply them to the more important concerns of eternity . The first of these principles is , that no prudent man , who consults his own happiness , is ever so • much engrossed with present ...
... regard to our temporal interests , we also apply them to the more important concerns of eternity . The first of these principles is , that no prudent man , who consults his own happiness , is ever so • much engrossed with present ...
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... voice of Wisdom bids him look to something beyond the present day , and that the smile of hope invites him to follow her towards some distant good . This regard to the future governs all the conduct of life . Why should 20 DISCOURSE II .
... voice of Wisdom bids him look to something beyond the present day , and that the smile of hope invites him to follow her towards some distant good . This regard to the future governs all the conduct of life . Why should 20 DISCOURSE II .
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... regard to the future world . I speak with boldness : -of futurity , the philosopher and the unbeliever know nothing definite : they can only guess at what it may be . Who is that infinite and incomprehensible Spirit , that occupies ail ...
... regard to the future world . I speak with boldness : -of futurity , the philosopher and the unbeliever know nothing definite : they can only guess at what it may be . Who is that infinite and incomprehensible Spirit , that occupies ail ...
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... regard to his future destiny , which , if he suffer it not to be weakened by the temptations that surround him , or by the remaining corruption of his own heart , bears him up triumphantly through all the trials he has to encounter ...
... regard to his future destiny , which , if he suffer it not to be weakened by the temptations that surround him , or by the remaining corruption of his own heart , bears him up triumphantly through all the trials he has to encounter ...
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... regard to time or eternity , the world deserves to be held low in our estimation , when compared to the ser- vice of Jesus Christ ; and the yoke which he calls upon us to sustain ought to be deemed easy , and his burden light . Let ...
... regard to time or eternity , the world deserves to be held low in our estimation , when compared to the ser- vice of Jesus Christ ; and the yoke which he calls upon us to sustain ought to be deemed easy , and his burden light . Let ...
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Page 5 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 198 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height ; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 7 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; For he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.
Page 205 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 108 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 180 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Page 179 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 101 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 118 - Servants obey in all things your masters, according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Page 177 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.