Sermons,T. Cadell, and W. Davies ... and W. Creech, Edinburgh., 1808 - Presbyterian Church |
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... live , and the embarrassments with which they are surrounded , keep their spirits in perpetual ferment . Conflicting with difficulties which they are unable to overcome , conscious of their own misconduct , but ashamed to con- fess it ...
... live , and the embarrassments with which they are surrounded , keep their spirits in perpetual ferment . Conflicting with difficulties which they are unable to overcome , conscious of their own misconduct , but ashamed to con- fess it ...
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... lives much in little space ; more in a few years than others do in many . He can live to God and his own soul , and at the same time at- tend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides ...
... lives much in little space ; more in a few years than others do in many . He can live to God and his own soul , and at the same time at- tend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides ...
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... the age in which we live ; an age manifestly distinguished by a propensity to thoughtless profusion ; where in all the different ranks of men are ob . 1 . served to press with forward vanity on those served 12 On the Importance of.
... the age in which we live ; an age manifestly distinguished by a propensity to thoughtless profusion ; where in all the different ranks of men are ob . 1 . served to press with forward vanity on those served 12 On the Importance of.
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... live beyond your fortune , you have entered on the path of danger . Precipices surround you on all sides . ' Every step which you take may lead lead to mischiefs , that , as yet , lie hidden ; and to crimes that will end in your ...
... live beyond your fortune , you have entered on the path of danger . Precipices surround you on all sides . ' Every step which you take may lead lead to mischiefs , that , as yet , lie hidden ; and to crimes that will end in your ...
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... lives not to himself , but to 1 the world . By continual dissipation , he is rendered giddy and thoughtless . He un- avoidably contracts from the world , that spirit of disorder and confusion which is so prevalent in it . It is not a ...
... lives not to himself , but to 1 the world . By continual dissipation , he is rendered giddy and thoughtless . He un- avoidably contracts from the world , that spirit of disorder and confusion which is so prevalent in it . It is not a ...
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Page 121 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Page 375 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page vii - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord ? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Page 383 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 211 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 339 - For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
Page 400 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page vii - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Page 220 - I am the Resurrection, and the Life : he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in
Page 295 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God : and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.