Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Volume 1M. Carey and son, 1818 - Sermons, English |
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Page vii
... Behold the divine secret of penitence ! As it officiates here below towards the criminal soul , says Tertullien , as the justice of God ; and as the justice of God shall one day punish guilt by the eternal privation of all crea- tures ...
... Behold the divine secret of penitence ! As it officiates here below towards the criminal soul , says Tertullien , as the justice of God ; and as the justice of God shall one day punish guilt by the eternal privation of all crea- tures ...
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... behold , my brethren , the last reason why we show so little fervour and animation in the affair of our eternal salvation ; it is because we fulfil the duties necessary to accomplish it without pleasure , and , as it were , against our ...
... behold , my brethren , the last reason why we show so little fervour and animation in the affair of our eternal salvation ; it is because we fulfil the duties necessary to accomplish it without pleasure , and , as it were , against our ...
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... penitence are always bitter and gloomy . The mourning is only external ; when sincere , they have a thousand secret recompences . The upright soul resem- Vol . I. 3 bles the sacred bush ; you behold but the prickles ON SALVATION . 83.
... penitence are always bitter and gloomy . The mourning is only external ; when sincere , they have a thousand secret recompences . The upright soul resem- Vol . I. 3 bles the sacred bush ; you behold but the prickles ON SALVATION . 83.
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... behold but the prickles and thorns , but you see not the glory of the Lord which dwells within it ; you see only fasting and bodily suffer- ings , but you perceive not the holy unction which sooths and softens them : you see silence ...
... behold but the prickles and thorns , but you see not the glory of the Lord which dwells within it ; you see only fasting and bodily suffer- ings , but you perceive not the holy unction which sooths and softens them : you see silence ...
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... Behold , then , already one path of salvation shut to the generality of men . All have erred . Be Be ye whom you may , who listen to me at present , the time has been , when sin reigned over you : Age may perhaps have calmed your ...
... Behold , then , already one path of salvation shut to the generality of men . All have erred . Be Be ye whom you may , who listen to me at present , the time has been , when sin reigned over you : Age may perhaps have calmed your ...
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Page iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 84 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page iv - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chans, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
Page 447 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 130 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 84 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page iv - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 489 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said ; It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 382 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 308 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.