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... scripture " calls the earnest of the Spirit ; " so this is a precursor of hell , a sign of wrath at the door . We may say of it what is said of the pale horse in the Revelation , that hell follows it . " " If a man abide not in me ...
... scripture " calls the earnest of the Spirit ; " so this is a precursor of hell , a sign of wrath at the door . We may say of it what is said of the pale horse in the Revelation , that hell follows it . " " If a man abide not in me ...
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... scripture by this metaphor of plowing , Jer . iv . 3 ; Hos . x . 12. " Plow up your fallow ground ; " that is , be convinced , humbled , and broken - hearted for sin . And the resemblance betwixt both these works appears in the ...
... scripture by this metaphor of plowing , Jer . iv . 3 ; Hos . x . 12. " Plow up your fallow ground ; " that is , be convinced , humbled , and broken - hearted for sin . And the resemblance betwixt both these works appears in the ...
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... scriptures from a child . 3. Frosts and snows conduce very much to the well- rooting of the seed . So do those sanctified afflictions , which the people of God usually meet with after their calling , and often in their very seed time ...
... scriptures from a child . 3. Frosts and snows conduce very much to the well- rooting of the seed . So do those sanctified afflictions , which the people of God usually meet with after their calling , and often in their very seed time ...
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... scriptures , he had made his breast the very library of Christ . But others are babes in Christ ; and though God will preserve that good work which he has be- gun in them , yet these poor babes will soonest feel , and be most concerned ...
... scriptures , he had made his breast the very library of Christ . But others are babes in Christ ; and though God will preserve that good work which he has be- gun in them , yet these poor babes will soonest feel , and be most concerned ...
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... scripture - promise ; for although it is readily granted , that God has made many comfortable and sweet promises to the grace of his people , yet we must expect to enjoy the benefits and blessings of all these promises , in that way and ...
... scripture - promise ; for although it is readily granted , that God has made many comfortable and sweet promises to the grace of his people , yet we must expect to enjoy the benefits and blessings of all these promises , in that way and ...
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Popular passages
Page 58 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: Thou greatly enrichest it With the river of God, which is full of water : Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 59 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 59 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 135 - They take the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.
Page 123 - The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Page 88 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 265 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 87 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man...
Page 87 - Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 40 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost : in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them : together with ver.