An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, Volume 2T. Scollick ... and T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, 1788 - Preaching |
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Page xi
... Spirit of wisdom , he gathered the tribes to Shechem , ( 9 ) and harangued the people of God . Solomon ( 1 ) was a prince of the house of Judah , Amos a herd- man of Tekoa , yet both were preachers , and one at least was a prophet ...
... Spirit of wisdom , he gathered the tribes to Shechem , ( 9 ) and harangued the people of God . Solomon ( 1 ) was a prince of the house of Judah , Amos a herd- man of Tekoa , yet both were preachers , and one at least was a prophet ...
Page xvii
... spirit of prophecy . These pests of fociety had art and addrefs enough to infinuate themselves into fa- vour , and to obtain popularity . They fwarmed every where , and became the heaviest curfe , that was ever inflicted on a guilty ...
... spirit of prophecy . These pests of fociety had art and addrefs enough to infinuate themselves into fa- vour , and to obtain popularity . They fwarmed every where , and became the heaviest curfe , that was ever inflicted on a guilty ...
Page xviii
... spirit of the devil fent us to preach thus and thus : but here was a pretended reverence of God , and an acknowledgement of his authority . ( 1 ) Secondly , they affected to imitate the true pro- phets , till they had obtained the ...
... spirit of the devil fent us to preach thus and thus : but here was a pretended reverence of God , and an acknowledgement of his authority . ( 1 ) Secondly , they affected to imitate the true pro- phets , till they had obtained the ...
Page xx
... Spirit of the Lord from ME to speak unto thee ! And Micaiah faid , Thou shalt fee on that day , when thou shalt run from chamber to chamber to hide thyfelf . 23 , 24 . 1 facred books of Mofes contained the genealogies of all the xx A ...
... Spirit of the Lord from ME to speak unto thee ! And Micaiah faid , Thou shalt fee on that day , when thou shalt run from chamber to chamber to hide thyfelf . 23 , 24 . 1 facred books of Mofes contained the genealogies of all the xx A ...
Page xxxv
... spirit of the devil with the profeffion of chriftianity . They knew the weak- nefs of fome pious men , and the defperate projects of the wicked . They remembered the ftate of the Mofaical œconomy , and they recollected the pro- phecies ...
... spirit of the devil with the profeffion of chriftianity . They knew the weak- nefs of fome pious men , and the defperate projects of the wicked . They remembered the ftate of the Mofaical œconomy , and they recollected the pro- phecies ...
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Page 450 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Page 378 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page xlv - And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Page 500 - we are more than conquerors, through *' him that loved us. For I am perfuaded, *e that neither death, nor life, nor angels, " nor principalities, nor powers, nor things *' prefent, nor things to come, nor height, " nor depth, nor any other creature, mafl " be able to feparate us from the love of " God, which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord.
Page 429 - and dwell in the uttermoft parts of the fea ; " even there fhall thy hand lead me, and thy right
Page 328 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it -not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 54 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 449 - Lord, have we not prophefied in thy name ? and in thy name have caft out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works ? 23 And then will I profefs unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 79 - If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Page xxiii - ... or temporary gallery, where, in a wing on the right hand of the pulpit, sat .six of the principal preachers ; and in another, on the left, seven. Thirteen other principal teachers, and many Levites, were present also on scaffolds erected for the purpose, alternately to officiate.