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... lights which should guide us , it is often excusable . For Paul saith , I was a blasphemer , and a persecutor , and an oppressor , but I was received to mercy , for I did it ignorantly , through un- belief . So , though we are all bound ...
... lights which should guide us , it is often excusable . For Paul saith , I was a blasphemer , and a persecutor , and an oppressor , but I was received to mercy , for I did it ignorantly , through un- belief . So , though we are all bound ...
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... light and sweet , we have cast off . How shall we then dare to call thee Father ? Or to beg that thou wilt make one trial more of us ? These hearts are accustomed to rebellions , and hopeless . But , O God , create in us new hearts ...
... light and sweet , we have cast off . How shall we then dare to call thee Father ? Or to beg that thou wilt make one trial more of us ? These hearts are accustomed to rebellions , and hopeless . But , O God , create in us new hearts ...
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... light enough , yet Impingimus meridie , as the prophet saith " , even at noon we stumble ; we have much more light , by Christ being come , than the Jews had , but we are sorry we have it : when Christ hath said to us for our better ...
... light enough , yet Impingimus meridie , as the prophet saith " , even at noon we stumble ; we have much more light , by Christ being come , than the Jews had , but we are sorry we have it : when Christ hath said to us for our better ...
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... Light , but was sent to bear witness of that Light . It is an injury common to all the evangelists , ( as Irenæus notes ) that all their Gospels were severally refused by one sect of heretics or other . But it was proper to St. John ...
... Light , but was sent to bear witness of that Light . It is an injury common to all the evangelists , ( as Irenæus notes ) that all their Gospels were severally refused by one sect of heretics or other . But it was proper to St. John ...
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... light , but was sent to bear witness of that light ) are placed in the first part of the chapter , that which concerns Christ's divine nature , yet they belong , and they have a respect to all three ; to his divine nature , to his ...
... light , but was sent to bear witness of that light ) are placed in the first part of the chapter , that which concerns Christ's divine nature , yet they belong , and they have a respect to all three ; to his divine nature , to his ...
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Page 276 - LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Page 194 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 610 - Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen ; and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Page 213 - Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications : and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Page 150 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of ? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Page 1 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart...
Page 450 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 167 - Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
Page 152 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 406 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.