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... suffering , but it leads to eternal life and heavenly glory . O that you may this day hear your heavenly leader's voice calling unto you strive to enter in at the straight gate , for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to ...
... suffering , but it leads to eternal life and heavenly glory . O that you may this day hear your heavenly leader's voice calling unto you strive to enter in at the straight gate , for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to ...
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... sufferings of your dying hours , by putting off your repentance , and leaving your peace with God unmade until the feebleness of disease shall unfit you for so serious and solemn a duty ; and why will you waste your day of grace in ...
... sufferings of your dying hours , by putting off your repentance , and leaving your peace with God unmade until the feebleness of disease shall unfit you for so serious and solemn a duty ; and why will you waste your day of grace in ...
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... sufferings of the present life , under such an aspect as removes them altogether from their lawful and appointed use , and renders them sinful and destructive . Hence it is that he is called the god of this world , and the spirit that ...
... sufferings of the present life , under such an aspect as removes them altogether from their lawful and appointed use , and renders them sinful and destructive . Hence it is that he is called the god of this world , and the spirit that ...
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... suffer it to be choked and rendered unfruitful by the thorns and briars of worldly occupation and sensual delights . To show the wealthy and the prosperous , and the busy and the thoughtless , where their danger lies , and to set their ...
... suffer it to be choked and rendered unfruitful by the thorns and briars of worldly occupation and sensual delights . To show the wealthy and the prosperous , and the busy and the thoughtless , where their danger lies , and to set their ...
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... suffer affliction with the people of GOD , than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; for he had respect unto the recompense of reward , and endured as seeing him who is invisible . The faith of the martyrs was , that they were ...
... suffer affliction with the people of GOD , than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; for he had respect unto the recompense of reward , and endured as seeing him who is invisible . The faith of the martyrs was , that they were ...
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Popular passages
Page 178 - I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me; 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; for the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Page 483 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 412 - And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents : behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
Page 251 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Page 19 - A certain man made a great supper, and bade many : and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come ; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee have me excused.
Page v - His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 294 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 412 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Page 252 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page vi - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.