Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... first was led by the knowledge of God to the knowledge of the 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 ...
... first was led by the knowledge of God to the knowledge of the 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 ...
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... first wrought . It is not in the power of huf- bandmen to ripen fruits at pleasure , our times are in the hands of God , therefore it is good to wait ; a long - fuffering patience will reap the defired fruit . Thus you have fome hints ...
... first wrought . It is not in the power of huf- bandmen to ripen fruits at pleasure , our times are in the hands of God , therefore it is good to wait ; a long - fuffering patience will reap the defired fruit . Thus you have fome hints ...
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... first to last ; who yet have been at far greater expence of time and pains in compiling it , than you can be in reading it . The hufbandman's work , you know , is no easy work , and the spiritualizing of it hath greater difficulties ...
... first to last ; who yet have been at far greater expence of time and pains in compiling it , than you can be in reading it . The hufbandman's work , you know , is no easy work , and the spiritualizing of it hath greater difficulties ...
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... First , Internal . Secondly , External . The External works of God are twofold . First , Of creation , Secondly , Of providence . The works of providence are likewife twofold . First , In things civil , the Lord ordering and over ...
... First , Internal . Secondly , External . The External works of God are twofold . First , Of creation , Secondly , Of providence . The works of providence are likewife twofold . First , In things civil , the Lord ordering and over ...
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... first entertainment of the gofpel is commonly the beft ; and what good is done by the miniftry is often done at its first entrance . New things are pretty , and very taking . " John at first " was to the Jews a burning and shining light ...
... first entertainment of the gofpel is commonly the beft ; and what good is done by the miniftry is often done at its first entrance . New things are pretty , and very taking . " John at first " was to the Jews a burning and shining light ...
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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.