...youthful iniquities; and that, which is practicable and indispensable, will resemble "the cutting " off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a " right eye." He who has in any way defrauded others, cannot be thought " to do works meet for repentance," unless...

...difficult, but almost impossible. To forsake your sins, and return unto God will be as the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye. — The present, then, is the most proper time for repentance. It is less difficult now, than it will...

...that compliance with his precepts would on many occasions prove as painful to us as the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye; when we are directed by the same Divine Teacher and his apostles to deny ourselves, to mortify our...

...and so to mortify the members of the body of sin in them, whichr is as painful, as the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye; to deny themselves, to renounce the world as a portion, and so to abandon for ever, all the pleasures...

...in the Gospels ? These critical discoverers, however, may rest assured, that there is nothing piore strong, nothing more pointed, nothing more unequivocally...Divine Master, who expressly, in one chapter only, the 9th of Saint Mark, three several times denounces eternal punishment on the irreclaimably impenitent,...

...Evangelists, than with the keen, penetrating, heart-exploring exposition of those very doctrines which arc equally found, but not equally expanded, in the Gospels?...Divine Master, who expressly, in one chapter only, the 9th of St. Mark, three several times denounces eternal punishment on the irreclaimably impenitent,...

...offer it as a victim at the shrine of duty, even if the sacrifice were as painful, as the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye. The great hindrance to purity, in most characters, is not so much any grosser vice, avowedly indulged,...

...youthful iniquities ; and that, which is practicable and indispensable, will resemble " the cut" ting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of " a right eye." 1 James iv. 6—10. He who has in any way defrauded others, cannot be thought " to do works meet for...

...all the ground we gain from them, is offering a sort of violence to ourselves, like " the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye ; the trial occasioned thereby to our fortitude and courage, will appear very considerable. (3.) The...

...youthful iniquities ; and that, which is practicable and indispensable, will resemble " the cut" ting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of " a right eye." ' James iv. 6 — 10. •-_ He who has in any way defrauded others, cannot be thought " to do works...