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Page 8
... sincerity and truth , but in great measure to a strong , though perhaps un- conscious , desire to justify the position which you yourself have adopted , and which your conscience continually warns you is an unsafe and untenable one ? II ...
... sincerity and truth , but in great measure to a strong , though perhaps un- conscious , desire to justify the position which you yourself have adopted , and which your conscience continually warns you is an unsafe and untenable one ? II ...
Page 118
... sincerely , supposing to add affliction to his bonds . What then ? withstanding , every way , whether in pretence or in truth , Christ was preached ; " And I therein . do rejoice , " cried the glorious , great - hearted man , " yea ...
... sincerely , supposing to add affliction to his bonds . What then ? withstanding , every way , whether in pretence or in truth , Christ was preached ; " And I therein . do rejoice , " cried the glorious , great - hearted man , " yea ...
Page 127
... sincere milk of the word , that we may grow thereby . What we , the people want , is not the- ology theological , but theology vital . We do not care for oxygen and nitrogen ; we want air . Preach doctrinal sermons , not skeletons , but ...
... sincere milk of the word , that we may grow thereby . What we , the people want , is not the- ology theological , but theology vital . We do not care for oxygen and nitrogen ; we want air . Preach doctrinal sermons , not skeletons , but ...
Page 140
... sincerely believe that it is his plainness of speech , his fearless utterance of the truth , or fearless rebuke of sin , that is dis- tasteful . It is well for a minister to be so simple that the most ignorant can understand him , so ...
... sincerely believe that it is his plainness of speech , his fearless utterance of the truth , or fearless rebuke of sin , that is dis- tasteful . It is well for a minister to be so simple that the most ignorant can understand him , so ...
Page 160
... sincere de- sire to learn and to teach the lesson which it bears , we begin to expound and warn and infer and ad- monish , till the theme is " done to death . " Waked suddenly from our slothful inertia , we lay about us right and left ...
... sincere de- sire to learn and to teach the lesson which it bears , we begin to expound and warn and infer and ad- monish , till the theme is " done to death . " Waked suddenly from our slothful inertia , we lay about us right and left ...
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