Practical theology, comprizing discourses on the liturgy and principles of the united Church of England and Ireland, critical and other tracts, and a speech delivered in the House of peers in 1824, Volume 1 |
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... less , of trea- suring it up , for the improvement of their hearts , and for the regulation of their future conduct . And what is the consequence ? Their memories , indeed , may carry away some small portion of what they hear but what ...
... less , of trea- suring it up , for the improvement of their hearts , and for the regulation of their future conduct . And what is the consequence ? Their memories , indeed , may carry away some small portion of what they hear but what ...
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... less than the whole heart , God cannot be acceptably served . Their spiritual growth is stopped , their harvest kept from ripening , by those thoughts , anxieties , and appetites , which they suffer to increase upon them . The cares of ...
... less than the whole heart , God cannot be acceptably served . Their spiritual growth is stopped , their harvest kept from ripening , by those thoughts , anxieties , and appetites , which they suffer to increase upon them . The cares of ...
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... less evident , than it is remarkable , that the prayers and hymns of the New Testa- ment , are , almost uniformly , framed from similar passages in the Old ; and we have reason to believe that our blessed Lord Himself , who had not the ...
... less evident , than it is remarkable , that the prayers and hymns of the New Testa- ment , are , almost uniformly , framed from similar passages in the Old ; and we have reason to believe that our blessed Lord Himself , who had not the ...
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... less than to the Christian Church , pay this just and appropriate tribute , to the value of those devotional compo- sitions whose spirit will never be extinct , while there is a God to be adored , and while there are any reasonable ...
... less than to the Christian Church , pay this just and appropriate tribute , to the value of those devotional compo- sitions whose spirit will never be extinct , while there is a God to be adored , and while there are any reasonable ...
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... less evidently , the spurious fabrication of later times . Of this , our English reformers , were well aware ; in the Romish breviary and mass - book , and in the various for- mularies of the Greek church , they saw , and they condemned ...
... less evidently , the spurious fabrication of later times . Of this , our English reformers , were well aware ; in the Romish breviary and mass - book , and in the various for- mularies of the Greek church , they saw , and they condemned ...
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Page 81 - Christian life: remembering always, that baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour CHRIST, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 7 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 187 - How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page xiii - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: Aud when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Page 271 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Page 103 - For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament; (for then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ, and drink his blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us;) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily.
Page xi - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 90 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 103 - Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Page 214 - Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life : but teach them thy sons, and thy sons...