A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)Richard Edwards, 1825 - Christian life |
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... tempted : hoping that others will come after , and do better than we all . If any call it my pride , to think that any ministers or stu- dents are so raw as to need any thing that I can add to them , let him but pardon me for saying ...
... tempted : hoping that others will come after , and do better than we all . If any call it my pride , to think that any ministers or stu- dents are so raw as to need any thing that I can add to them , let him but pardon me for saying ...
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... tempt the hearers ✓ to think them envious . And 2. That what I do amiss they would do better : and not be such as will neither laboriously serve the church themselves , nor suffer others ; and that they will not be guilty of idleness ...
... tempt the hearers ✓ to think them envious . And 2. That what I do amiss they would do better : and not be such as will neither laboriously serve the church themselves , nor suffer others ; and that they will not be guilty of idleness ...
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... tempting sinners ? It is in thy power , if thou be truly willing , to do so no more . If thou love and choose such company , and places , and actions , and dis- course , how canst thou say thou art willing to forsake them , or that thy ...
... tempting sinners ? It is in thy power , if thou be truly willing , to do so no more . If thou love and choose such company , and places , and actions , and dis- course , how canst thou say thou art willing to forsake them , or that thy ...
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... tempting and enticing him to be willing : all that are grace- less , are willfully graceless . None go to hell , but those that choose the way to hell , and would not be persuaded out of it ; none miss of heaven , but those that did set ...
... tempting and enticing him to be willing : all that are grace- less , are willfully graceless . None go to hell , but those that choose the way to hell , and would not be persuaded out of it ; none miss of heaven , but those that did set ...
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... Tempt . 11. If Satan cannot keep the soul in a sleepy , careless , inconsiderate forgetfulness , he would make the un- regenerate soul believe , that there is no such thing as re- generating grace ; but that it is a fancied thing ...
... Tempt . 11. If Satan cannot keep the soul in a sleepy , careless , inconsiderate forgetfulness , he would make the un- regenerate soul believe , that there is no such thing as re- generating grace ; but that it is a fancied thing ...
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Page 19 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 52 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 400 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 436 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 110 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Page 372 - And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
Page 162 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 162 - 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. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 88 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.