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... duty in life and doctrine . Works , Vol . vi . 6 1 Tim . iv . 14. 2 Tim . i . 6 . 7 On 2 Cor . iii . 8. Comp . Daven . in Col. i . 1 . 92 Cor . iv . 1 . 8 Hall on the Discouragements and Supports of the Ministry , p . 51 . is unsuitable ...
... duty in life and doctrine . Works , Vol . vi . 6 1 Tim . iv . 14. 2 Tim . i . 6 . 7 On 2 Cor . iii . 8. Comp . Daven . in Col. i . 1 . 92 Cor . iv . 1 . 8 Hall on the Discouragements and Supports of the Ministry , p . 51 . is unsuitable ...
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... duty , the mind will thus be excited to a more solid and devoted consecration ; and the whole man will be gradually formed in this heavenly mould - exalted , not elated . Dignity of character will thus correspond with dignity of station ...
... duty , the mind will thus be excited to a more solid and devoted consecration ; and the whole man will be gradually formed in this heavenly mould - exalted , not elated . Dignity of character will thus correspond with dignity of station ...
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... duty as Ministers of the gospel shall have need to be prepared for sufferings ; and it was in a sense of these things that he gave himself up to the sacred Ministry . ' We need scarcely remark , what dexterity of application , diligence ...
... duty as Ministers of the gospel shall have need to be prepared for sufferings ; and it was in a sense of these things that he gave himself up to the sacred Ministry . ' We need scarcely remark , what dexterity of application , diligence ...
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... duty furnishes the only anticipation of Ministerial difficulties . This want of acquaintance with the real difficulties in every part of the function , by failing to realize our entire helplessness , is one main cause of its ...
... duty furnishes the only anticipation of Ministerial difficulties . This want of acquaintance with the real difficulties in every part of the function , by failing to realize our entire helplessness , is one main cause of its ...
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... duties of his professorship was full of encourage- ment— ' Quidni ergo jucundissima mihi illa Domini verba applicem , quibus servum suum Josuam quondam affatus est ? ' Nonne ego precepi tibi ? Confirmare igitur et fortis esto ; quia ...
... duties of his professorship was full of encourage- ment— ' Quidni ergo jucundissima mihi illa Domini verba applicem , quibus servum suum Josuam quondam affatus est ? ' Nonne ego precepi tibi ? Confirmare igitur et fortis esto ; quia ...
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Page 255 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Page 465 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 129 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Page 15 - He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and be that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
Page 78 - As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou earnest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Page 53 - Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books arc to be read only in parts; others to be 174 ON STUDY.
Page 391 - I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.
Page 82 - Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 114 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 263 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.