Sermons, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 - Sermons |
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... misery amid his possessions , with the con- sciousness that he ought never to have enjoyed them ; that , year after year , he has been reaping the fruits of injustice ; that the time is now gone by in which he might have pacified both ...
... misery amid his possessions , with the con- sciousness that he ought never to have enjoyed them ; that , year after year , he has been reaping the fruits of injustice ; that the time is now gone by in which he might have pacified both ...
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... misery , throughout the world , can be atoned for by the lamentations of a being who never thought of deploring his sins till he had lost all power of enjoying them . He has seen , unmoved , for threescore years , misfor- tune , evil ...
... misery , throughout the world , can be atoned for by the lamentations of a being who never thought of deploring his sins till he had lost all power of enjoying them . He has seen , unmoved , for threescore years , misfor- tune , evil ...
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... misery which would proceed from not doing it : in fine , in all wretchedness , and under the rod of any op- pressor , if a man despise not himself , joy has not left that man , neither is happiness turned away from his paths ; but the ...
... misery which would proceed from not doing it : in fine , in all wretchedness , and under the rod of any op- pressor , if a man despise not himself , joy has not left that man , neither is happiness turned away from his paths ; but the ...
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... misery than good . I do not only mean misery in a world to come , but 1 misery in this ; and to such an extreme is On Repentance . 31.
... misery than good . I do not only mean misery in a world to come , but 1 misery in this ; and to such an extreme is On Repentance . 31.
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Sydney Smith. misery in this ; and to such an extreme is irresolution carried , that men will frequent- ly do that for which they are absolutely certain they must atone , by tenfold wretch- edness , within the short period of a day , or ...
Sydney Smith. misery in this ; and to such an extreme is irresolution carried , that men will frequent- ly do that for which they are absolutely certain they must atone , by tenfold wretch- edness , within the short period of a day , or ...
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Page 91 - Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Page 252 - Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth...
Page 290 - And the Publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 275 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof...
Page 269 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 330 - Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Page 330 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness His secret place ; His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 128 - She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ.
Page 423 - I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Page 252 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.