Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each SubjectBrightly and Childs, 1814 - Sermons, English |
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... pleasures of the lowest of the people , and spend their hours in chattering and vulgar merriment . They make the business of their dress the study and labour of half the day , and spend another part of it , in trifling dis- course and ...
... pleasures of the lowest of the people , and spend their hours in chattering and vulgar merriment . They make the business of their dress the study and labour of half the day , and spend another part of it , in trifling dis- course and ...
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... pleasures , and raises them to manly satisfactions , to entertainments worthy of a rational nature , worthy of a creature that is made in the image of God . The innocent entertain- ments of life are not utterly forbidden to Christians ...
... pleasures , and raises them to manly satisfactions , to entertainments worthy of a rational nature , worthy of a creature that is made in the image of God . The innocent entertain- ments of life are not utterly forbidden to Christians ...
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... pleasurable entertainments , we indulge our- selves in , which have no valuable end , no useful design in them ; these will bear but an ill aspect before the judgment - seat of Christ . We shall not be able to give a tolerable account ...
... pleasurable entertainments , we indulge our- selves in , which have no valuable end , no useful design in them ; these will bear but an ill aspect before the judgment - seat of Christ . We shall not be able to give a tolerable account ...
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... pleasure , they are not so easily recollected al . at once for the sacred service of re- ligion . Nor should we run bastily away from the duties of worship , and plunge ourselves into the midst even of innocent merriment ; for this ...
... pleasure , they are not so easily recollected al . at once for the sacred service of re- ligion . Nor should we run bastily away from the duties of worship , and plunge ourselves into the midst even of innocent merriment ; for this ...
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... pleasure will be changed from light and gay to that which is grave and solid . To conclude this subject , I would mention only one powerful motive to preserve Christian gravity , and that is , that hereby the temper of your spirit will ...
... pleasure will be changed from light and gay to that which is grave and solid . To conclude this subject , I would mention only one powerful motive to preserve Christian gravity , and that is , that hereby the temper of your spirit will ...
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Page 92 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 49 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 159 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
Page 220 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 311 - And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake ; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Page 359 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 149 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page 302 - ... among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 149 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 156 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.