The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself], Volume 3Crocker & Brewster, 1842 - Sermons |
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... becomes you as a man , as a christian , and especially as an aged and experienced minister of Christ . You have long been preaching submission to others ; but you are now called to feel and express it yourself . You have often directed ...
... becomes you as a man , as a christian , and especially as an aged and experienced minister of Christ . You have long been preaching submission to others ; but you are now called to feel and express it yourself . You have often directed ...
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... becomes familiar with it , and better prepared to meet it . When men go out and come in , lie down and rise up , with a realizing sense of their own mortality , death loses its power to surprise them , and affords them an excellent ...
... becomes familiar with it , and better prepared to meet it . When men go out and come in , lie down and rise up , with a realizing sense of their own mortality , death loses its power to surprise them , and affords them an excellent ...
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... becomes the bereaved and afflicted on this mournful occasion , to submit to his holy and absolute sovereignty . This is the only ground of submission under your present bereavement . God has called away the deceased without any order ...
... becomes the bereaved and afflicted on this mournful occasion , to submit to his holy and absolute sovereignty . This is the only ground of submission under your present bereavement . God has called away the deceased without any order ...
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... become the means of great good . Men are naturally prone , in prosperity , to forget and forsake God ; to imagine they are rich and increased with goods , and have need of nothing ; to trust in their own hearts and lean to their own ...
... become the means of great good . Men are naturally prone , in prosperity , to forget and forsake God ; to imagine they are rich and increased with goods , and have need of nothing ; to trust in their own hearts and lean to their own ...
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... become the most beneficial . The greatest burdens have the greatest tendency to draw men to God , and make them feel the necessity of looking to him for support and relief . None will go to God for support , so long as they feel able to ...
... become the most beneficial . The greatest burdens have the greatest tendency to draw men to God , and make them feel the necessity of looking to him for support and relief . None will go to God for support , so long as they feel able to ...
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Page 474 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...
Page 475 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 169 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 158 - ... that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 27 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 474 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 149 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 80 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 356 - Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Page 318 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.