The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon...: To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life, in a Sermon Occasioned by His Death, Volume 1 |
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... Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and facrifices , as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold , to obey , is better than facrifice ; and to hearken , than the fat of rams . SERMON XIV . The fecurity of those who truft in God ...
... Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and facrifices , as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold , to obey , is better than facrifice ; and to hearken , than the fat of rams . SERMON XIV . The fecurity of those who truft in God ...
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... Lord of thofe fervants coming , after a long time , to reckon with them , " we are to understand that particular judgment which every one paffes under at death , when our final ftates are determined : and also , and principally , our Lord's ...
... Lord of thofe fervants coming , after a long time , to reckon with them , " we are to understand that particular judgment which every one paffes under at death , when our final ftates are determined : and also , and principally , our Lord's ...
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... Lord . " There are two things in thefe words that particularly deserve our notice . The character of those who fhall meet with the approbation of their Lord , in the great day of final awards ; they have been good and faithful fer ...
... Lord . " There are two things in thefe words that particularly deserve our notice . The character of those who fhall meet with the approbation of their Lord , in the great day of final awards ; they have been good and faithful fer ...
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... Lord , that he not only enjoins it upon his difciples as their duty , but as their distinguishing and cha ... Lord's work , is another ingredient in the character of the good and faithful fervant . You will eafily perceive the abfurdity ...
... Lord , that he not only enjoins it upon his difciples as their duty , but as their distinguishing and cha ... Lord's work , is another ingredient in the character of the good and faithful fervant . You will eafily perceive the abfurdity ...
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... Lord . " a We must be diligent too , that one duty may not interfere with another , for every thing is beautiful in its feafon . Again - Diligence is implied in the idea of faithful- ness ; for the fervant cannot be faithful who is not ...
... Lord . " a We must be diligent too , that one duty may not interfere with another , for every thing is beautiful in its feafon . Again - Diligence is implied in the idea of faithful- ness ; for the fervant cannot be faithful who is not ...
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Page 243 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 155 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 294 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 452 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 279 - I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 501 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 262 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 481 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 304 - And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Page 480 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.