The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Crocker and Brewster, 1825 - Theology |
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... Truth of the Scripture 209 A Fragment , written in an Illness , in the year 1799 231 - REMAINS . On the Christian Life and Conflict 247 On Subjects connected with the Christian Ministry :On a Minister's Qualifying himself for his Office ...
... Truth of the Scripture 209 A Fragment , written in an Illness , in the year 1799 231 - REMAINS . On the Christian Life and Conflict 247 On Subjects connected with the Christian Ministry :On a Minister's Qualifying himself for his Office ...
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... truth against a dissolution of all principles , civil and sacred — What have we now done ? Is there not a cause ? ' Still some will object . — More easy , indeed , is it to invent invidious objections with Eliab , than to feel a holy ...
... truth against a dissolution of all principles , civil and sacred — What have we now done ? Is there not a cause ? ' Still some will object . — More easy , indeed , is it to invent invidious objections with Eliab , than to feel a holy ...
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... into the atheism of our enemy . His language , like that of Sennacherib and Goliath , has always been with me a token for good . Notwithstanding his tem- porary success , we should hold fast this truth , 22 SERMONS .
... into the atheism of our enemy . His language , like that of Sennacherib and Goliath , has always been with me a token for good . Notwithstanding his tem- porary success , we should hold fast this truth , 22 SERMONS .
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... truth . in their endeavours to abolish that abominable traffic the Slave Trade abroad , or to ' suppress the grosser vices and open profanations at home ? Do the wicked . so walk on every side , as to put to rebuke ' every effort of ...
... truth . in their endeavours to abolish that abominable traffic the Slave Trade abroad , or to ' suppress the grosser vices and open profanations at home ? Do the wicked . so walk on every side , as to put to rebuke ' every effort of ...
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... truth will not ignorance , joined with vice , despise ? You may properly , however , inform them , that ENGLAND was once lost to an invader ; and you will do well to bid them mark the circumstances in which it was lost . The English ...
... truth will not ignorance , joined with vice , despise ? You may properly , however , inform them , that ENGLAND was once lost to an invader ; and you will do well to bid them mark the circumstances in which it was lost . The English ...
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Page 173 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 309 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 127 - Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Page 87 - But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Page 474 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 94 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 307 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 64 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 164 - had not ' so loved the world as to give his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,' This, Dear Children, is your only hope, as well as mine.
Page 40 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.