An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, Volume 2W. Lepard and sold, 1782 - Preaching |
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Page ii
... fhall find leifure and inclination to be in- ftructed by dumb figns , by figns , which even cul- tivated capacities find hard to understand , are not fure at any time they have understood at all , and never know when they have ...
... fhall find leifure and inclination to be in- ftructed by dumb figns , by figns , which even cul- tivated capacities find hard to understand , are not fure at any time they have understood at all , and never know when they have ...
Page v
... fhall a modern non - con- formift adopt all the weakneffes of every one , who was perfecuted out of eftablished communities ! All other orders of men examine and reform them- felves ; do men in black alone intend to render impropriety ...
... fhall a modern non - con- formift adopt all the weakneffes of every one , who was perfecuted out of eftablished communities ! All other orders of men examine and reform them- felves ; do men in black alone intend to render impropriety ...
Page xxviii
... fhall hear the voice of the Son of God- The wicked fhall go away into everlasting punish- ment - The righteous fhall go into life eternal- My kingdom is not of this world - The merciful are happy - Happy are the pure in heart - Few find ...
... fhall hear the voice of the Son of God- The wicked fhall go away into everlasting punish- ment - The righteous fhall go into life eternal- My kingdom is not of this world - The merciful are happy - Happy are the pure in heart - Few find ...
Page xxix
... fhall I put the period ? his perfections are inex- hauftible , and our admiration is everlasting . The character of Chrift is the beft book a preacher can study . In order to mortify human vanity , to convince the world that religion ...
... fhall I put the period ? his perfections are inex- hauftible , and our admiration is everlasting . The character of Chrift is the beft book a preacher can study . In order to mortify human vanity , to convince the world that religion ...
Page xlii
... fhall be against them ! Befide , they are provoked to fpeak , for they are wearied with liftening year after year to what is not worth hear- ing . They add , they are able at all adventures , to put a priest in petticoats to the blush ...
... fhall be against them ! Befide , they are provoked to fpeak , for they are wearied with liftening year after year to what is not worth hear- ing . They add , they are able at all adventures , to put a priest in petticoats to the blush ...
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Page 320 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 438 - For it is God that worketh in you to will and to do of his own good pleasure.
Page 50 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page xli - And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Page 169 - I am perfuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things prefent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, fhall be able to feparate us from the love of God. which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord.
Page 18 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 421 - ... le délivrer de la mort, ni au Dieu juste qu'il regarde comme un ennemi déclaré, dont il ne doit plus attendre d'indulgence : il se roule dans ses propres horreurs , il se tourmente , il s'agite pour fuir la mort qui le saisit , ou du moins pour se fuir lui-même; il sort de ses yeux...
Page xxxi - As if they could never get near enough to hear the soft accents of his voice, they pressed, they crowded, they trod upon one another to surround him. When he retired into the wilderness, they thought him another Moses, and would have made him a king. It was the finest thing they could think of. He. greater than the greatest monarch, despised worldly...
Page 422 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 366 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.