A sermon [on Is. xxxvi, 1] preached at the parish church of Trinity, in the Minories, on October the 19th, 18031803 |
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... against the defenced Cities of Judah , and took them . HISTORY is juftly faid to be the Guide of Life * . It inftructs by example . It enables the mind , without effort , to fee the confequences of good or ill conduct , and to predict ...
... against the defenced Cities of Judah , and took them . HISTORY is juftly faid to be the Guide of Life * . It inftructs by example . It enables the mind , without effort , to fee the confequences of good or ill conduct , and to predict ...
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... against me ? " Unable to contend with us fingle - handed , " thou trufteft on the staff of this broken reed , even upon Egypt , upon which if a man lean , " it will run into his hand and pierce it ; " alluding probably to the reeds that ...
... against me ? " Unable to contend with us fingle - handed , " thou trufteft on the staff of this broken reed , even upon Egypt , upon which if a man lean , " it will run into his hand and pierce it ; " alluding probably to the reeds that ...
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... against this place " without the Lord ? The Lord faid unto me go up against this Land and destroy it . " Thus arguing on their principles , in oppofition to his own , the better to deceive and effect his purpose . But he would persuade ...
... against this place " without the Lord ? The Lord faid unto me go up against this Land and destroy it . " Thus arguing on their principles , in oppofition to his own , the better to deceive and effect his purpose . But he would persuade ...
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... against Jerufalem , he took " council with his princes and his mighty men , to " ftop the waters of the fountains , which were " without the city ; " the fprings or refervoirs by which it was , and might still be , by fubterraneous ...
... against Jerufalem , he took " council with his princes and his mighty men , to " ftop the waters of the fountains , which were " without the city ; " the fprings or refervoirs by which it was , and might still be , by fubterraneous ...
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... When , on the other hand , our help standeth in the name of the Lord , when we have omnipotence and omnifcience to affift us , no weapon formed against us can profper . In In vain the enemy counts upon the multitude of his 15.
... When , on the other hand , our help standeth in the name of the Lord , when we have omnipotence and omnifcience to affift us , no weapon formed against us can profper . In In vain the enemy counts upon the multitude of his 15.
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Page 15 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 15 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: "then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 7 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 10 - And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Page 9 - Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
Page 15 - I have chofen ? to loofe the bands of wickednefs, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the opprefTed go free, and " that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the " hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are caft out, to thy " houfe ? when thou feeft the naked, that thou cover him, and " that thou hide not thyfelf from thine own flefh (a) ? " The moft extraordinary penance of all, is celibacy confidered as a religious duty.
Page 9 - Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: 8...
Page 18 - By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
Page 15 - bow down his head as a bulrufh, and *' to fpread fackcloth and afhes under " him ? Wilt thou call this a faft, and " an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not " this the faft that I have chofen, to loofe " the bands of wickednefs, to undo the '* heavy burdens, and to let the opprefled *' go free, and that ye break every yoke ? " Is it not to deal thy bread to the hun...
Page 5 - I rejoice to discern that such computation is fallacious quite, in all parts of it; a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will run into his hand.