Twenty Sermons: The First Nine of Them Preached Before the King in Lent...

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John and Paul Knapton, 1755 - Lenten sermons - 430 pages

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Page ix - KNOW ye not, that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things: now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Page 359 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.
Page 207 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God, For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Page 65 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 251 - Are ye able to drink of the cup that I fhall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptifm that I am baptized •with ? They fay unto him,, We are able.
Page 113 - Chrift ; who gave himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar people, zealous of good works*.
Page 212 - World from Darknefs to Light, and from the Power of Satan to the living God. But the aiming at the Service of God himfelf, will not juftify all the Means we may poffibly ufe, in our great Concern for it.
Page 227 - O man can ferve two mafters : for either he will hate the one, and love the other ; or elfe he will hold to the one, and defpife the other. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon.
Page ix - ye, when ye fhall have done all thofe things which ' are commanded you, fay, We are unprofitable ' fervants : we have done that which was our duty
Page 390 - Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord...

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