Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... 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 attending it ...
... 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 attending it ...
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... last that he hath play'd the foòl . But here he's taught , how he , before he die , May lay up treafure for eternity ; Wherein he may be rich , yea , much , much more , Than they that do poffefs whole mines of ore . When earth's more ...
... last that he hath play'd the foòl . But here he's taught , how he , before he die , May lay up treafure for eternity ; Wherein he may be rich , yea , much , much more , Than they that do poffefs whole mines of ore . When earth's more ...
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... , no cavils make . And try ! Saints fay that even , Take , hath much of heaven . Their best wine's kept till last , Eafe comes all fo fast . CHAP . II . Upon the Thriftinefs of the Hufbandman The Heavenly Ufe of Earthly Things . 31.
... , no cavils make . And try ! Saints fay that even , Take , hath much of heaven . Their best wine's kept till last , Eafe comes all fo fast . CHAP . II . Upon the Thriftinefs of the Hufbandman The Heavenly Ufe of Earthly Things . 31.
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... last prevailed against me , thou art stronger than I , and haft overcome . To duties and ordinances , he may fay , Where is the fweetness I once found in you ? You were once sweeter to me than the honey - comb ; but now as taftelefs as ...
... last prevailed against me , thou art stronger than I , and haft overcome . To duties and ordinances , he may fay , Where is the fweetness I once found in you ? You were once sweeter to me than the honey - comb ; but now as taftelefs as ...
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... last be caft down to hell ? And if fo , Lord , what a hell will my hell be ? It will be more tole- rable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for me . It drew tears from the eyes of Chrift , when he was looking upon Jerufalem , under the fame ...
... last be caft down to hell ? And if fo , Lord , what a hell will my hell be ? It will be more tole- rable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for me . It drew tears from the eyes of Chrift , when he was looking upon Jerufalem , under the fame ...
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Popular passages
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.