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Page 230 - And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left ; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.
Page 22 - ... growing in grace, and in the knowledge of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and adorning the doctrine of God his Saviour in all things, by his truly Christian life and conversation.
Page 222 - To him that hath, shall be given, and he shall have more abundantly ; from him that hath not, shall be taken, even that which he hath.
Page 270 - A poor country parson, fighting against the devil in his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had.
Page 124 - One reason why the world is not reformed, is, because every man would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself.
Page 254 - Nothing of this is new to me ; I have foreseen and am prepared for it all." I am sensible that in the disorders of the mind, as well as those of the body, discourses are not thought the most efficacious remedies ; but I am persuaded also that the malady of the soul ought to be cured by spiritual applications.
Page 219 - Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and my body to be burned, I am nothing: for I have not charity; I do not love God with all my heart.
Page 272 - In heaven, sin known and pardoned is the song of praise ; sin known and unpardoned is hell. If ever I thank Christ as I ought, it must be in heaven ; it is in vain to think of doing it here. Heaven is heaven rather as a state of exemption from sin than suffering. We must die for perfect conformity to the will of God ; and it is worth dying for. Delight in the will of God is the perfection of all intelligent beings, the essence of happiness, the joy of angels, heaven on earth, and the heaven of heaven.
Page 154 - ... the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 130 - ... it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.