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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... sense , more happy and forcible views of the immediate subject . The reasoning is not only irre- sistible , but managed in a mode so simple and clear , that its force is obvious to the most ordinary capacity . Upon all subjects of ...
... sense , more happy and forcible views of the immediate subject . The reasoning is not only irre- sistible , but managed in a mode so simple and clear , that its force is obvious to the most ordinary capacity . Upon all subjects of ...
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... sense ; and how hard and painful a thing must it needs be to a man of passion and infirmity , amid such a crowd of objects that are continually striking upon the sense , and soliciting the affections , not to be moved and interrupted by ...
... sense ; and how hard and painful a thing must it needs be to a man of passion and infirmity , amid such a crowd of objects that are continually striking upon the sense , and soliciting the affections , not to be moved and interrupted by ...
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... sense enough to understand it , either to be persuaded out of it by himself , whom he loveth so well , or by another , whose interest or diversion it may be to make him ashamed of him- self ! Then , Secondly , As to the difficulties ...
... sense enough to understand it , either to be persuaded out of it by himself , whom he loveth so well , or by another , whose interest or diversion it may be to make him ashamed of him- self ! Then , Secondly , As to the difficulties ...
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... sense can demonstrate in specu- lation , and may be fully convinced , that all the praises and commendations of the whole world , can add no more to the real and intrinsic value of a man , than they can add to his stature . And yet ...
... sense can demonstrate in specu- lation , and may be fully convinced , that all the praises and commendations of the whole world , can add no more to the real and intrinsic value of a man , than they can add to his stature . And yet ...
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... sense of the great difficulty for him to learn to do good , who hath been long accustomed to do evil . Or , lastly , hath a false opinion betrayed him into a sin ? he then calleth to mind what wrong apprehensions he hath made of some ...
... sense of the great difficulty for him to learn to do good , who hath been long accustomed to do evil . Or , lastly , hath a false opinion betrayed him into a sin ? he then calleth to mind what wrong apprehensions he hath made of some ...
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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...