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... felicity so great that we have not now capacities to understand it , our heart is not big enough to think it ; there cannot in the world be a greater inducement to engage us , a greater argument to oblige us to do our duty . God hath ...
... felicity so great that we have not now capacities to understand it , our heart is not big enough to think it ; there cannot in the world be a greater inducement to engage us , a greater argument to oblige us to do our duty . God hath ...
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... felicity , to God himself . And yet God hath hedged sin round about with thorns , and sin of itself too brings thorns ; and it abuses a man in all his capacities , and it places poison in all those seats and receptions where he could ...
... felicity , to God himself . And yet God hath hedged sin round about with thorns , and sin of itself too brings thorns ; and it abuses a man in all his capacities , and it places poison in all those seats and receptions where he could ...
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... felicity , no recovery of his sorrows and sicknesses ; but he must sink under the strokes of a jealous God into the dis- honour of eternal ages , and the groanings of a never- ceasing sorrow . God is a jealous God . ] That is the first ...
... felicity , no recovery of his sorrows and sicknesses ; but he must sink under the strokes of a jealous God into the dis- honour of eternal ages , and the groanings of a never- ceasing sorrow . God is a jealous God . ] That is the first ...
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... felicity : his great design is to be glorified in our being saved . 3. God's jealousy hath a sadder effect than all this . For all this is for mercy ; but if we provoke this jealousy , if he finds us in our spiritual whoredoms , he is ...
... felicity : his great design is to be glorified in our being saved . 3. God's jealousy hath a sadder effect than all this . For all this is for mercy ; but if we provoke this jealousy , if he finds us in our spiritual whoredoms , he is ...
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... felicity ; and if any semblance of a curse happens in the generations , it is but like the anathema of a sacrifice ; not an accursed , but a devot- ed thing for so the sacrifice upon whose neck the priest's knife doth fall is so far ...
... felicity ; and if any semblance of a curse happens in the generations , it is but like the anathema of a sacrifice ; not an accursed , but a devot- ed thing for so the sacrifice upon whose neck the priest's knife doth fall is so far ...
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Page 162 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 244 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 384 - ... according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not...
Page 94 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Page 76 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 16 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 1 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Page 372 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 180 - 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. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 180 - And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked : between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.