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 2 |
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... reason on the perfec- tions of God , as an object of science , and another to glori- fy him as Cod , or to have a deep and awful impreffion of him upon our hearts . Real believers will know this by experience . A difcovery of the glory ...
... reason on the perfec- tions of God , as an object of science , and another to glori- fy him as Cod , or to have a deep and awful impreffion of him upon our hearts . Real believers will know this by experience . A difcovery of the glory ...
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... reasons why interpreters generally apply thefe words to Chrift , but only obferve , that , on this fup- pofition , they contain a mixed representation of glory and fuffering , of ftrength and abasement , which is the very substance and ...
... reasons why interpreters generally apply thefe words to Chrift , but only obferve , that , on this fup- pofition , they contain a mixed representation of glory and fuffering , of ftrength and abasement , which is the very substance and ...
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... reason has he to fay , Worthy is the Lamb that was flain , to " receive power , and riches , and wifdom , and ftrength , " and honor , and glory , and bleffing ! ” I fhall now conclude this head with obferving , that I have all along ...
... reason has he to fay , Worthy is the Lamb that was flain , to " receive power , and riches , and wifdom , and ftrength , " and honor , and glory , and bleffing ! ” I fhall now conclude this head with obferving , that I have all along ...
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... reason , we fhall fee that the hope of a finner must arise not from ex- tenuation , but confeffion ; not from human merit , but from the divine mercy . This is fo plain , that had men but any real and juft convictions of their ...
... reason , we fhall fee that the hope of a finner must arise not from ex- tenuation , but confeffion ; not from human merit , but from the divine mercy . This is fo plain , that had men but any real and juft convictions of their ...
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... reason to take the whole blame upon our- felves , and to fay , " We are not ftraitened in God , but " ftraitened in our own bowels . " ( 5. ) In the last place , fome are bold enough to excuse their fins , as being only the effects of ...
... reason to take the whole blame upon our- felves , and to fay , " We are not ftraitened in God , but " ftraitened in our own bowels . " ( 5. ) In the last place , fome are bold enough to excuse their fins , as being only the effects of ...
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Page 155 - For I delight in the law of God after the inward man ; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 177 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 82 - And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Page 26 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, "Lo, I come:" in the volume of the book it is written of me, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." Yea, thy law is within my heart: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Page 561 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 56 - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page 249 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Page 26 - And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof.' 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Page 56 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 14 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...