The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses ; with a Devout Meditation, Or Prayer Subjoined to Each Chapter, with an Address to the Master of the Family |
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... imagine , upon this view , that thousands and tens of thousands thought the neglect , and even the contempt of religion , were a glory , rather than a reproach . And where is the neigh- borhood , where is the society , where is the ...
... imagine , upon this view , that thousands and tens of thousands thought the neglect , and even the contempt of religion , were a glory , rather than a reproach . And where is the neigh- borhood , where is the society , where is the ...
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... imagine you to be a profane and abandoned prof- ligate . I will not suppose , that you allow yourself to blas- pheme God , to dishonour his name by customary swearing , or grossly to violate his Sabbath , or commonly to neglect the ...
... imagine you to be a profane and abandoned prof- ligate . I will not suppose , that you allow yourself to blas- pheme God , to dishonour his name by customary swearing , or grossly to violate his Sabbath , or commonly to neglect the ...
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... imagine you should take fire , as it were , at the first hearing of it ; yea , that so delightful a view should presently possess your whole soul with a kind of indignation against yourself , that you pur- sued it no sooner.- " May I ...
... imagine you should take fire , as it were , at the first hearing of it ; yea , that so delightful a view should presently possess your whole soul with a kind of indignation against yourself , that you pur- sued it no sooner.- " May I ...
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... imagine it . You would not say , in any distemper which threatened your life , " I will stay till I grow a little worse , and then I will apply to a physician : I will let my disease get a little more rooting in my vitals , and then I ...
... imagine it . You would not say , in any distemper which threatened your life , " I will stay till I grow a little worse , and then I will apply to a physician : I will let my disease get a little more rooting in my vitals , and then I ...
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... imagine . Has your heart been , even from your youth , hardened to so uncommon a degree , that you have never cried to God in any season of danger and difficulty ? And did you never mingle vows with those cries ? Did you never promise ...
... imagine . Has your heart been , even from your youth , hardened to so uncommon a degree , that you have never cried to God in any season of danger and difficulty ? And did you never mingle vows with those cries ? Did you never promise ...
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Page 46 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about : mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me.
Page 216 - Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee.
Page 225 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 294 - Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 294 - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Page 178 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 302 - Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not upon thy name.
Page 228 - Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save ; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear ; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God ; and your sins have hid His face from you.
Page 76 - God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 230 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.