Sound, and wholesome, doctrine and advice: in Powells gleanings from his own library

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James Powell (of Loughborough)
1819

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Page 31 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
Page 14 - And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Page 29 - I indeed baptise you with water unto repentance; but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
Page 37 - And when he says, ver. 7 and 8, " The carnal (orflesliIy) mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be ; so that they that are in the flesh, cannot please God...
Page 31 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : And it shall be to the LORD for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 27 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; tor of such is the kingdom of Got!. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, lie shall not enter therein.
Page 33 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumsion of Christ.
Page 33 - Spirit we are all baptised into one body, whether we be Jews or gentiles, bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 29 - Matt. iii. 12: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; hut he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Page 23 - ... observations of men, do sometimes put a weight upon the soul too, but they beget a more sluggish, uneven, and unkindly motion in it. You may expect, that under this head I should speak something of heaven and hell; and truly so I may pertinently, for I think they do belong to this place. If you take heaven, properly, for a full and glorious union to God, and fruition of him, and hell for an eternal separation and straggling from the divinity; and suppose that the love of God, and the fear of...

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