Twenty-five Village Sermons.H Hooker, 1854 - 276 pages |
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... never praises religious people ? This is very curious . Would to God we would all remember it ! The Bible speaks of a religious man only once , and of religion only twice , except where it speaks of the Jew's re- ligion to condemn it ...
... never praises religious people ? This is very curious . Would to God we would all remember it ! The Bible speaks of a religious man only once , and of religion only twice , except where it speaks of the Jew's re- ligion to condemn it ...
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... never mentioned God's name in describing it ! This sort of religion must have very little to do with God . You may be surprised at my words , and say in your hearts almost angrily , ' Why , who saves our souls but God ? therefore ...
... never mentioned God's name in describing it ! This sort of religion must have very little to do with God . You may be surprised at my words , and say in your hearts almost angrily , ' Why , who saves our souls but God ? therefore ...
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... never have got it of yourselves . But people forget this , and therefore they have so little real love to God - so little real , loyal , child- like trust in God . They do not think much about God , because they find no pleasure in ...
... never have got it of yourselves . But people forget this , and therefore they have so little real love to God - so little real , loyal , child- like trust in God . They do not think much about God , because they find no pleasure in ...
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... and which God grant may never happen again . Within two miles of this church there are now five lying dead . Five human beings , young as well as old , to whom the awful words of the text have been fulfilled : " Thou 4.
... and which God grant may never happen again . Within two miles of this church there are now five lying dead . Five human beings , young as well as old , to whom the awful words of the text have been fulfilled : " Thou 4.
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... never stand up- right if they could not get sand from the soil . So what a thousand years ago made part of a mountain , now makes part of a wheat plant ; and in a year more the wheat grain will have been eaten , and the wheat straw ...
... never stand up- right if they could not get sand from the soil . So what a thousand years ago made part of a mountain , now makes part of a wheat plant ; and in a year more the wheat grain will have been eaten , and the wheat straw ...
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Page 201 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 151 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page iii - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man : that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 261 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father.
Page 148 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 40 - And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Page 155 - And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son...
Page 121 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 175 - Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, LORD, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Page vii - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.