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... must fub- mit . But to accuse the Gospel of severity on this account , would be just as rational and as equitable as to charge the furgeon with cruelty for amputating a gangrened limb , or the phy- fician with ill - nature for ...
... must fub- mit . But to accuse the Gospel of severity on this account , would be just as rational and as equitable as to charge the furgeon with cruelty for amputating a gangrened limb , or the phy- fician with ill - nature for ...
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... must never hope for any lasting peace or tranquillity of mind . Chearfulness is the privilege of innocence and virtue . The vicious and impenitent have no pretenfions to it . They may , indeed , have tranfient gleams of gaiety and mirth ...
... must never hope for any lasting peace or tranquillity of mind . Chearfulness is the privilege of innocence and virtue . The vicious and impenitent have no pretenfions to it . They may , indeed , have tranfient gleams of gaiety and mirth ...
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... must see , that a ftate of mind like this must exclude all enjoyment of life ; must produce a fullen gloo- miness of difpofition , which no ray of chear- fulness can penetrate or enliven . When , therefore , Christianity exhorts us to ...
... must see , that a ftate of mind like this must exclude all enjoyment of life ; must produce a fullen gloo- miness of difpofition , which no ray of chear- fulness can penetrate or enliven . When , therefore , Christianity exhorts us to ...
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... , who is both able and willing to protect us , we must live under per- petual apprehenfions for ourselves and those who are moft dear to us . From this most painful painful folicitude ( which was , in fact , a SERMON I 13.
... , who is both able and willing to protect us , we must live under per- petual apprehenfions for ourselves and those who are moft dear to us . From this most painful painful folicitude ( which was , in fact , a SERMON I 13.
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... must be owned , calamities fufficient to break the highest fpirits , and to fubdue the firmest minds . When the good and virtuous man is unjustly accused and inhumanly traduced ; when enemies oppress and friends desert him ; when ...
... must be owned , calamities fufficient to break the highest fpirits , and to fubdue the firmest minds . When the good and virtuous man is unjustly accused and inhumanly traduced ; when enemies oppress and friends desert him ; when ...
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Page 130 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Page 118 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner ; that he may live with thee.
Page 196 - So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him.
Page 235 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Page 104 - For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Page 255 - Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 25 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 99 - But now thy kingdom shall not continue : the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
Page 30 - that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts...
Page 320 - For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.