Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Pastor of the French Church at the Hague: On the principal doctrines of ChristianityW.J. M'Cartee, 1813 - Sermons, English |
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... explications of them : should it affirm , God is , as you say , a wise and bountiful being : but he displays his wisdom and goodness not in governing his intelligent creatures as you have imagined ; such a moral government , I will ...
... explications of them : should it affirm , God is , as you say , a wise and bountiful being : but he displays his wisdom and goodness not in governing his intelligent creatures as you have imagined ; such a moral government , I will ...
Page xv
... explication by temporal rewards and punishments . Suppose they should re- quire all their subjects to carry their infants in their arms to a public school , to answer certain astronomi- cal interrogations , to be put by a professor of ...
... explication by temporal rewards and punishments . Suppose they should re- quire all their subjects to carry their infants in their arms to a public school , to answer certain astronomi- cal interrogations , to be put by a professor of ...
Page xvi
... explication of this system ? And dost thou also believe that explication of this revelation , which certain of our own prede- cessors in the profession believed , which we , your masters , and parents , in due obedience , receive ? Sup ...
... explication of this system ? And dost thou also believe that explication of this revelation , which certain of our own prede- cessors in the profession believed , which we , your masters , and parents , in due obedience , receive ? Sup ...
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... explication , may be fatal to me , if they lag behind , or ken beyond the bound of the creed . Nature says , a constellation is a collection of stars , which in the heavens appear near to one another . This is a plain simple truth , I ...
... explication , may be fatal to me , if they lag behind , or ken beyond the bound of the creed . Nature says , a constellation is a collection of stars , which in the heavens appear near to one another . This is a plain simple truth , I ...
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... explication of the book , he would be unlike the God , who requires the boy to explain it to himself ; and should he require the captain to enforce his explication by penalties , the captain ought to reprove his folly for counter ...
... explication of the book , he would be unlike the God , who requires the boy to explain it to himself ; and should he require the captain to enforce his explication by penalties , the captain ought to reprove his folly for counter ...
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Page 198 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace...
Page 99 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 252 - But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Page 356 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 260 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead : 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 177 - Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Page 236 - Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me : in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the Volume of the Book it is written of me) to do Thy will, O God.
Page 317 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 177 - I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Page 179 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.