Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... creature , muft now by the creatures learn to know God . That the creatures , ( as one faith ) like Balaam's afs , fhould teach their master . But though this be the unhappiness of poor man in his collapsed ftate , yet it is now his ...
... creature , muft now by the creatures learn to know God . That the creatures , ( as one faith ) like Balaam's afs , fhould teach their master . But though this be the unhappiness of poor man in his collapsed ftate , yet it is now his ...
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... creatures , leave men without excufe , as it is manifeft , Rom . i . 20. how in- excufable then will thofe be , who have received not only the teach- ings of the creature , but alío the grace of the gospel in vain ! " How hall we escape ...
... creatures , leave men without excufe , as it is manifeft , Rom . i . 20. how in- excufable then will thofe be , who have received not only the teach- ings of the creature , but alío the grace of the gospel in vain ! " How hall we escape ...
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... creature's ingratitude . 7. Prop . When husbandmen have been at coft and pains about their husbandry , they expect fruit from it , answerable to their pains and expences about it : " Behold ( faid James ) the husbandman waiteth " for ...
... creature's ingratitude . 7. Prop . When husbandmen have been at coft and pains about their husbandry , they expect fruit from it , answerable to their pains and expences about it : " Behold ( faid James ) the husbandman waiteth " for ...
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... - mendation and honour to you to be active and stirring men : But how much more honour doth God put upon his laborious fervants ? • Non mercenarii fed operárii . It is the highest honour of a creature to be 32 Hufbandry Spiritualized ; or ,
... - mendation and honour to you to be active and stirring men : But how much more honour doth God put upon his laborious fervants ? • Non mercenarii fed operárii . It is the highest honour of a creature to be 32 Hufbandry Spiritualized ; or ,
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John Flavel. It is the highest honour of a creature to be active and useful for its God . Saints are called veffels ... creatures ? And all the apostles gloried in the title of fervants . The lowest of fice in which a man can serve God ...
John Flavel. It is the highest honour of a creature to be active and useful for its God . Saints are called veffels ... creatures ? And all the apostles gloried in the title of fervants . The lowest of fice in which a man can serve God ...
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Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 608 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 398 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 78 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...
Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 496 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 303 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 399 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 68 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Page 225 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.