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... regard to God , nature itself can discern , and in some measure attain . Poor , mean attainment ! Yet nature is most unreasonably prone to substitute this in the place of inward and spiritual religion , to which it is altogether averse ...
... regard to God , nature itself can discern , and in some measure attain . Poor , mean attainment ! Yet nature is most unreasonably prone to substitute this in the place of inward and spiritual religion , to which it is altogether averse ...
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... regard , therefore , the felicity or ruin , one of which , in a few fleeting years , the soul must feel , you will find it hard to determine , which of the two most loudly declares its grandeur . These evidences , obvious in the ...
... regard , therefore , the felicity or ruin , one of which , in a few fleeting years , the soul must feel , you will find it hard to determine , which of the two most loudly declares its grandeur . These evidences , obvious in the ...
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... regard it as a malevolent foe to their pleasures . But soon as they perceive the excellent worth of their souls , they supremely value and earnestly pursue things unseen and eternal . Thus informed COMPLETE DUTY OF MAN . 21 The ...
... regard it as a malevolent foe to their pleasures . But soon as they perceive the excellent worth of their souls , they supremely value and earnestly pursue things unseen and eternal . Thus informed COMPLETE DUTY OF MAN . 21 The ...
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... regard it receives . No power on earth can insure it from the waste of time , from the blast of disease , or the untimely stroke of death . The place of honour , or the enchantments of popu- lar applause , are of little worth , because ...
... regard it receives . No power on earth can insure it from the waste of time , from the blast of disease , or the untimely stroke of death . The place of honour , or the enchantments of popu- lar applause , are of little worth , because ...
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... regard we find paid to it by the blessed God , that , in confirmation of the pro- mises of the everlasting covenant , he saith , Önce have I sworn by my holiness , that I will not lie unto David . Psalm . lxxxix . Inseparable from the ...
... regard we find paid to it by the blessed God , that , in confirmation of the pro- mises of the everlasting covenant , he saith , Önce have I sworn by my holiness , that I will not lie unto David . Psalm . lxxxix . Inseparable from the ...
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Page 149 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that •which is to come : and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 221 - 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 91 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 286 - ... then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, " This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Page 325 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 157 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Page 204 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 363 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 221 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 421 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for him, and he will save us : this is the LORD ; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.