Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... greatest gain . Wherein he treads a path not trode before ; By which , indeed , his skill appears the more . I might encomiums give him , great and true , And yet come very fhort of what's his due ; But I muft not walk in forbidden ways ...
... greatest gain . Wherein he treads a path not trode before ; By which , indeed , his skill appears the more . I might encomiums give him , great and true , And yet come very fhort of what's his due ; But I muft not walk in forbidden ways ...
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... greatest flourish and purity , then shall there be the fullest and most glorious manifeftation of the divine prefence among them , Rev. xxi . 3. " And I heard a great voice out " of heaven , faying , Behold , the tabernacle of God is ...
... greatest flourish and purity , then shall there be the fullest and most glorious manifeftation of the divine prefence among them , Rev. xxi . 3. " And I heard a great voice out " of heaven , faying , Behold , the tabernacle of God is ...
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... greatest guilt ; and of all blood , the blood of fouls . 14. Prop . Thofe that spend their time and ftrength all their days , in manuring and plowing in the fields , do maintain themselves and their families by their labours ; their ...
... greatest guilt ; and of all blood , the blood of fouls . 14. Prop . Thofe that spend their time and ftrength all their days , in manuring and plowing in the fields , do maintain themselves and their families by their labours ; their ...
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... greatest prince on earth , Pfalm lxxxiv . 10. It is no fmall honour to be active for God . 2. You have this benefit by your labour , that thereby you avoid loofe and evil company , which would draw you into mischief . By diligence for ...
... greatest prince on earth , Pfalm lxxxiv . 10. It is no fmall honour to be active for God . 2. You have this benefit by your labour , that thereby you avoid loofe and evil company , which would draw you into mischief . By diligence for ...
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... Doth God whirl about the heavens in endless revolutions , to beget time for this ? Or doth he not rather expect that the weightiest work should engross thy greatest ftrength , and choiceft hours ? O that I 34 Husbandry Spiritualized ; or ,
... Doth God whirl about the heavens in endless revolutions , to beget time for this ? Or doth he not rather expect that the weightiest work should engross thy greatest ftrength , and choiceft hours ? O that I 34 Husbandry Spiritualized ; or ,
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Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 608 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 398 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 78 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...
Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 496 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 303 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 399 - 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 68 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Page 225 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.