The National Preacher, Volumes 23-241849 - Religion |
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... character , having reference to the prevailing inefficiency of the means employed for promoting the cause of religion , and to the remedy by which that inefficiency may be removed . That the means at present employed for promoting the ...
... character , having reference to the prevailing inefficiency of the means employed for promoting the cause of religion , and to the remedy by which that inefficiency may be removed . That the means at present employed for promoting the ...
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... character and usefulness , if not personally ruined . O , with what jealousy should we watch and try our hearts , to know what manner of spirit we are of ! One may be actuated by a very bad spirit , when he little suspects it . His ...
... character and usefulness , if not personally ruined . O , with what jealousy should we watch and try our hearts , to know what manner of spirit we are of ! One may be actuated by a very bad spirit , when he little suspects it . His ...
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... character , and the same mental habits . If our life is an impenitent life , our death is almost certain to be an impenitent death ; if we live unprepared for eternity , we shall , ( unless our case prove a rare exception ) die at last ...
... character , and the same mental habits . If our life is an impenitent life , our death is almost certain to be an impenitent death ; if we live unprepared for eternity , we shall , ( unless our case prove a rare exception ) die at last ...
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... character , cultivating the virtues , and giving us the very discipline that we need in probation and for eternity . But , on the other hand , of all astringents , covetousness is the strongest of all vices , the meanest . More than all ...
... character , cultivating the virtues , and giving us the very discipline that we need in probation and for eternity . But , on the other hand , of all astringents , covetousness is the strongest of all vices , the meanest . More than all ...
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... these traits in our national character and pursuits are powerful ob- stacles in the way of the establishment of any military despotism- and to them should be added the combined influence of 66 THE NATIONAL PREACHER .
... these traits in our national character and pursuits are powerful ob- stacles in the way of the establishment of any military despotism- and to them should be added the combined influence of 66 THE NATIONAL PREACHER .
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Page 255 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 255 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 196 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 257 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 176 - Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
Page 69 - 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. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Page 170 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 251 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 28 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 43 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.