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... of holiness and happiness ! How heartless and worldly the last , which accounts of im- nortal men and of past generations as of the rank vegeta- tion that grows and decays to fatten the soil for A 2 THE GREAT WANT OF THE SOUL .
... of holiness and happiness ! How heartless and worldly the last , which accounts of im- nortal men and of past generations as of the rank vegeta- tion that grows and decays to fatten the soil for A 2 THE GREAT WANT OF THE SOUL .
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... tion from God , and banishment from all holy associations , and all elevating , spiritual pursuits and enjoyments , result no less from our own dispositions and tendencies than from the di- vine justice . Such announcements from the ...
... tion from God , and banishment from all holy associations , and all elevating , spiritual pursuits and enjoyments , result no less from our own dispositions and tendencies than from the di- vine justice . Such announcements from the ...
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... tion from polemical excitement , and of profounder submission to the divine oracles , intelligent Christians are not likely to find in this portion of holy Scripture such conflicting elements . All parties not blindly devoted to theory ...
... tion from polemical excitement , and of profounder submission to the divine oracles , intelligent Christians are not likely to find in this portion of holy Scripture such conflicting elements . All parties not blindly devoted to theory ...
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... tion , strength , activity - the faculties of the mind which de- velop thought , invention , fancy , which are concerned in men- tal productions and achievements of all sorts . Of themselves , however , these only make wild savages and ...
... tion , strength , activity - the faculties of the mind which de- velop thought , invention , fancy , which are concerned in men- tal productions and achievements of all sorts . Of themselves , however , these only make wild savages and ...
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... tion to moral agents , and it is very plainly set forth in our text . What , then , let us reverently inquire , does God accom- plish , and what does He demand of us in this joint perform- ance ? 1. God " works in us " by the light of ...
... tion to moral agents , and it is very plainly set forth in our text . What , then , let us reverently inquire , does God accom- plish , and what does He demand of us in this joint perform- ance ? 1. God " works in us " by the light of ...
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Page 20 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 342 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 368 - I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 30 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 307 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 227 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 174 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 212 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 211 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 31 - His second duty is to watch ; ' for he knoweth not the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.