Works: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Crocker & Brewster, 1842 |
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... wise as well as just . God never corrects his friends , nor his enemies , in this world , merely to display his justice . The present life is a state of trial , not of retribution . God chastises our guilty race only when his ...
... wise as well as just . God never corrects his friends , nor his enemies , in this world , merely to display his justice . The present life is a state of trial , not of retribution . God chastises our guilty race only when his ...
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... wise , and benevolent being who inflicts it . They may , therefore , exercise entire submission to the will of God , while they most painfully feel the weight of his correcting hand . Indeed , a consideration of bereavements coming from ...
... wise , and benevolent being who inflicts it . They may , therefore , exercise entire submission to the will of God , while they most painfully feel the weight of his correcting hand . Indeed , a consideration of bereavements coming from ...
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... wise , and benevolent dispensations . David appeared to be happy , when he said , " I was dumb , I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it . " Job appeared to be happy , when he said , " The Lord gave , and the Lord hath taken away ...
... wise , and benevolent dispensations . David appeared to be happy , when he said , " I was dumb , I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it . " Job appeared to be happy , when he said , " The Lord gave , and the Lord hath taken away ...
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... wise , to understand this , to consider your latter end . Let not stupid- ity stop your ears , nor natural affections harden your hearts . Humbly look up to the father of your spirits , by whom you are chastened , and learn obedience ...
... wise , to understand this , to consider your latter end . Let not stupid- ity stop your ears , nor natural affections harden your hearts . Humbly look up to the father of your spirits , by whom you are chastened , and learn obedience ...
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... wise or the unwise , may safely rely . There are innumerable diseases and accidents which no human wisdom can foresee , and which no human power can resist ; and to these instruments of death we are all continually exposed . Who in this ...
... wise or the unwise , may safely rely . There are innumerable diseases and accidents which no human wisdom can foresee , and which no human power can resist ; and to these instruments of death we are all continually exposed . Who in this ...
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Page 158 - ... that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 27 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 127 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 474 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 475 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 149 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 318 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 375 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 57 - Then Job answered the LORD, and said, Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee! I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer : Yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Page 209 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.