Twelve sermons. TractsArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... hope to handle it in such a manner , that the most ignorant among you may return home better informed of your duty in this great point , than probably you are at present . It must be confessed , that , by the weakness and indiscretion ...
... hope to handle it in such a manner , that the most ignorant among you may return home better informed of your duty in this great point , than probably you are at present . It must be confessed , that , by the weakness and indiscretion ...
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... hope , is too desperate a step for any of us to make . I have already observed , that those who preach up the belief of the Trinity , or of any other mys- tery , cannot propose any temporal advantage to themselves by so doing . But this ...
... hope , is too desperate a step for any of us to make . I have already observed , that those who preach up the belief of the Trinity , or of any other mys- tery , cannot propose any temporal advantage to themselves by so doing . But this ...
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... hope that is in us , with meekness and fear . And thus I have done with my subject , which probably I should not have chosen , if I had not been invited to it by the occasion of this season , appointed on purpose to celebrate the ...
... hope that is in us , with meekness and fear . And thus I have done with my subject , which probably I should not have chosen , if I had not been invited to it by the occasion of this season , appointed on purpose to celebrate the ...
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... . Secondly ; Fear and hope are the two greatest natural motives of all men's actions : but neither of these passions will ever put us in the way of virtue , unless they be directed by conscience . For 12 60 ON THE TESTIMONY.
... . Secondly ; Fear and hope are the two greatest natural motives of all men's actions : but neither of these passions will ever put us in the way of virtue , unless they be directed by conscience . For 12 60 ON THE TESTIMONY.
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... hope to be rewarded in it merely upon account of his virtue . And consequently the fear of punish- ment in this life will preserve men from very few vices , since some of the blackest and basest do often prove the surest steps to favour ...
... hope to be rewarded in it merely upon account of his virtue . And consequently the fear of punish- ment in this life will preserve men from very few vices , since some of the blackest and basest do often prove the surest steps to favour ...
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Page 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 78 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 156 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 159 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 116 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 47 - 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 197 - Who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Page 43 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 337 - Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Page 63 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...