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... looks down from above , obferves thy actions , and for all these things will bring thee into judgment . Ecclef . xi . 9. FOR EVERY ONE MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD . We need only confult our common feelings and experience to ...
... looks down from above , obferves thy actions , and for all these things will bring thee into judgment . Ecclef . xi . 9. FOR EVERY ONE MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD . We need only confult our common feelings and experience to ...
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... look , and plunge from its guilty com- panion , the body , with that indignati- on and defpair ? MARK now , on the contrary , the perfect man , and behold the upright ; for the end of that man is peace . Pfal . xxxvii . 37 . Look at him ...
... look , and plunge from its guilty com- panion , the body , with that indignati- on and defpair ? MARK now , on the contrary , the perfect man , and behold the upright ; for the end of that man is peace . Pfal . xxxvii . 37 . Look at him ...
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... looks , did not God fup- port and animate him with the hopes of a blessed immortality ? Bleffed GOD ! This is thy work : by this doft thou teach wisdom to the fons of men : let me live in thy fear , and , when I die , let me die the ...
... looks , did not God fup- port and animate him with the hopes of a blessed immortality ? Bleffed GOD ! This is thy work : by this doft thou teach wisdom to the fons of men : let me live in thy fear , and , when I die , let me die the ...
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... look at a caterpillar , upon the first view you can hardly think , that fuch a crawl- ing infect , loathfome , and hideous to the fight , should , in a certain time , be- come a new creature of distinguished rank and order . * Attend ...
... look at a caterpillar , upon the first view you can hardly think , that fuch a crawl- ing infect , loathfome , and hideous to the fight , should , in a certain time , be- come a new creature of distinguished rank and order . * Attend ...
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... Look at the face of things in the cold inanimate state of winter . It is all one vaft wafte : all things lie blended in confufion : fruits and flowers no longer preserve their dif- tinctions : what the industry of man fows , feems loft ...
... Look at the face of things in the cold inanimate state of winter . It is all one vaft wafte : all things lie blended in confufion : fruits and flowers no longer preserve their dif- tinctions : what the industry of man fows , feems loft ...
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Page 101 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 185 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 295 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 239 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
Page 86 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 189 - And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 191 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 360 - ALMIGHTY God, who shewest to them that be in error the light of Thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness ; Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christ's Religion, that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Page 274 - Though the common experience and the ordinary course of things have justly a mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refuse credit to any thing proposed to their belief; yet there is one case, wherein the strangeness of the fact lessens not the assent to a fair testimony given of it. For where such supernatural events are suitable to ends aimed at by him, who has the power to change the course of nature, there, under...
Page 233 - The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit.