Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation:: To which are Added, a Few Hints for Sermons; Intended Chiefly for the Use of the Younger Clergy, Volume 4T. Cadell, and W. Davies, in the Strand., 1806 - Sermons, English |
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... plain , and fimple truths of the gospel . Why God fuffered this blot , as fome may call it , in the facred record of truth , we know not . Yet humbly tracing the reafon of it in the analogy of his other works , we may refer it to the ...
... plain , and fimple truths of the gospel . Why God fuffered this blot , as fome may call it , in the facred record of truth , we know not . Yet humbly tracing the reafon of it in the analogy of his other works , we may refer it to the ...
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... plain , that the intention of the book , and the prescription must agree . Thus the apostle's rule of comparing Spiritual things with fpiritual , will in all cafes direct us right . One part will generally explain another : but if any ...
... plain , that the intention of the book , and the prescription must agree . Thus the apostle's rule of comparing Spiritual things with fpiritual , will in all cafes direct us right . One part will generally explain another : but if any ...
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... and addreffed to the world , were fure of being favourably heard . That these were the motives of the apostle's apprehenfion , is very plain : for he tells his converts , 12 converts , he fears , they fhould be corrupted , 28 SERMON II .
... and addreffed to the world , were fure of being favourably heard . That these were the motives of the apostle's apprehenfion , is very plain : for he tells his converts , 12 converts , he fears , they fhould be corrupted , 28 SERMON II .
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... plain points , had generally been the subjects of popular discourses , we fhould not have had now that grofs igno- rance in matters of religion , and that variety of ftrange notions , and prejudices tó combat , which we find amongst the ...
... plain points , had generally been the subjects of popular discourses , we fhould not have had now that grofs igno- rance in matters of religion , and that variety of ftrange notions , and prejudices tó combat , which we find amongst the ...
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... plain ; because the fimplicity of our manners must give force to what we fay . It is not every body , with his best endeavour , who can get hold of the propereft method of communicating his ideas ; or can practife that mode of ...
... plain ; because the fimplicity of our manners must give force to what we fay . It is not every body , with his best endeavour , who can get hold of the propereft method of communicating his ideas ; or can practife that mode of ...
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Page 145 - So when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Page 156 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 403 - For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Page 24 - But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so. your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Page 180 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 289 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today; for the sky is red and lowering.' O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Page 254 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 122 - THE LORD is king, the earth may be glad thereof; yea, the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof.
Page 160 - And why ? I was grieved at the wicked : I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity.
Page 249 - I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.