The works of ... Ezekiel Hopkins, arranged and revised, with a life of the author, by J. Pratt, Volume 4 |
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... torments and death ! Is this a proper occasion for joy ? is it not rather , for sorrow and dejection ? No , saith the Apostle : al- though your trials be great and manifold , yet account it joy ; yea , count it all joy when ye fall into ...
... torments and death ! Is this a proper occasion for joy ? is it not rather , for sorrow and dejection ? No , saith the Apostle : al- though your trials be great and manifold , yet account it joy ; yea , count it all joy when ye fall into ...
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... torment ourselves about what we can help , and what we cannot help ; and the like . But that patience , which I am now speaking of , is a Christian Grace , and proceeds not only upon such arguments and principles : no , it looks far ...
... torment ourselves about what we can help , and what we cannot help ; and the like . But that patience , which I am now speaking of , is a Christian Grace , and proceeds not only upon such arguments and principles : no , it looks far ...
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... torments ! And thus , in these Six particulars , you see what is the proper Work of Patience . It is : to quiet and compose the spirits of the afflicted to put a stop to all immoderate and 20 DEATH DISARMED OF ITS STING .
... torments ! And thus , in these Six particulars , you see what is the proper Work of Patience . It is : to quiet and compose the spirits of the afflicted to put a stop to all immoderate and 20 DEATH DISARMED OF ITS STING .
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... torments of hell ; so , likewise , they are many time short , only in compa- rison with eternity : they are short , only because they are not endless ; but , yet , this short moment may hold out as long as thy whole life . Now , then ...
... torments of hell ; so , likewise , they are many time short , only in compa- rison with eternity : they are short , only because they are not endless ; but , yet , this short moment may hold out as long as thy whole life . Now , then ...
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... torment thyself , by thy own troublesome thoughts and reflections ; nor to find out circumstances to aggravate thy sufferings : swallow down the bitter draught , that God puts into thy hand , without straining it through thy teeth ; for ...
... torment thyself , by thy own troublesome thoughts and reflections ; nor to find out circumstances to aggravate thy sufferings : swallow down the bitter draught , that God puts into thy hand , without straining it through thy teeth ; for ...
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Page 464 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 197 - That Day is a Day of Wrath, a Day of Trouble and distress, a Day of wasteness and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloominess, a Day of clouds and thick darkness.
Page 127 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 405 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 328 - ROMANS p)AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of .God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 289 - send peace on the earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For " I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter " against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. " And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 219 - And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 449 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 412 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 40 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil...