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... sometimes fierce and ven- omous , polemical sermons , written in a plain and fearless manner , are the most useful and effective . The Reader will occasionally observe a lack of symmetry and an ab- ruptness of transition , for which the ...
... sometimes fierce and ven- omous , polemical sermons , written in a plain and fearless manner , are the most useful and effective . The Reader will occasionally observe a lack of symmetry and an ab- ruptness of transition , for which the ...
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... do , bewail the uncertainty of our destiny and be haunted in our homes and in our places of bu siness by such dismal fears as the best hearts have sometimes experienced . II . ORIGINAL SIN . " And unto Adam he THE ATTRIBUTES . 25.
... do , bewail the uncertainty of our destiny and be haunted in our homes and in our places of bu siness by such dismal fears as the best hearts have sometimes experienced . II . ORIGINAL SIN . " And unto Adam he THE ATTRIBUTES . 25.
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... Sometimes a man lives his four - score years and ten , when he is cut down like a fully ripened shock for the garner - and we are filled with deeper wonder than ever . We wonder that the organs of his body should have retained their ...
... Sometimes a man lives his four - score years and ten , when he is cut down like a fully ripened shock for the garner - and we are filled with deeper wonder than ever . We wonder that the organs of his body should have retained their ...
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... sometimes think of heaven as such a land ; but heaven is too glorious for that.- The spirits there are never idle : our own , with wings half unfolded for a lofty and noble flight , tell us they are not . The white and strong 56 ...
... sometimes think of heaven as such a land ; but heaven is too glorious for that.- The spirits there are never idle : our own , with wings half unfolded for a lofty and noble flight , tell us they are not . The white and strong 56 ...
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... sometimes a rock in the ocean , unmoved by the stormy waters that beat against it , bears in its shelter- ing bosom a few sweet flowers whose ripened seeds the winds bear away and scatter in many lands , so , surrounded by that fierce ...
... sometimes a rock in the ocean , unmoved by the stormy waters that beat against it , bears in its shelter- ing bosom a few sweet flowers whose ripened seeds the winds bear away and scatter in many lands , so , surrounded by that fierce ...
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Page 50 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 20 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 19 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 26 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Page 123 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 93 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 174 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, BIBLICAL LITERATURE 65 that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Page 93 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 50 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 20 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.