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... bring the fhip to land , but he bid them throw him into the fea , verfe 12 , 13. ; for we have no reafon to think ... brings them home to God ; and this is his courfe generally . Defpifeft thou the riches of his goodness , not knowing ...
... bring the fhip to land , but he bid them throw him into the fea , verfe 12 , 13. ; for we have no reafon to think ... brings them home to God ; and this is his courfe generally . Defpifeft thou the riches of his goodness , not knowing ...
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... bring him to a right mind , when he finds him in his diftemper . God here deals with Jonah by reason and by argument ... brings reafon for what he says , and gives an account of himself in a rational way . We cannot do any good by ...
... bring him to a right mind , when he finds him in his diftemper . God here deals with Jonah by reason and by argument ... brings reafon for what he says , and gives an account of himself in a rational way . We cannot do any good by ...
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... brings this for an argument , that God was merciful ; this was true for the matter , but a ftrange argument for that which Jonah would plead for by it . The devil spoke truth in the fcrip- ture fometimes , but always for ill purpose ...
... brings this for an argument , that God was merciful ; this was true for the matter , but a ftrange argument for that which Jonah would plead for by it . The devil spoke truth in the fcrip- ture fometimes , but always for ill purpose ...
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... bring the judgment upon that place or persons against whom he had denounced them , if the cafe of re- pentance interveen . DISCOURSE II . The PERFECTION of the MERCY of God . JOEL ii . 13 . For he is gracious and merciful , flow to ...
... bring the judgment upon that place or persons against whom he had denounced them , if the cafe of re- pentance interveen . DISCOURSE II . The PERFECTION of the MERCY of God . JOEL ii . 13 . For he is gracious and merciful , flow to ...
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... bring this home to the cafe . I fay , if God punish fin where fin is com- mitted , it is just ; God may justly do it , for fin de- ferves punishment . But we cannot fay it is neceflary that God fhould punish fin ; for if you say that ...
... bring this home to the cafe . I fay , if God punish fin where fin is com- mitted , it is just ; God may justly do it , for fin de- ferves punishment . But we cannot fay it is neceflary that God fhould punish fin ; for if you say that ...
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Page 269 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 275 - God ; who will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 179 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Page 4 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Page 271 - ... as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again; so that a man cannot know where it went through...
Page 25 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 119 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning ; and rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God ; for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil.
Page 240 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 282 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 361 - ... to be throughout rational in what they do ; for these things have a Divine foundation. The spirit in man is the Candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting men to God.