A discourse concerning the salvation of rich men, done into Engl. by J. Jones |
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Page 49 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 9 - Children, how hard is it for them that truft in riches to enter into the kingdom of God...
Page 64 - For in an earlier passage, speaking in the person of the Lord himself, he had said: " Even though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them as white as snow...
Page 59 - ... or less distinguished by drawing themselves, like ships to the strand, out of the surge of the world and bringing themselves to safety; not wishing to seem holy, and ashamed if one call them so; hiding in the depth of their mind the ineffable mysteries, and disdaining to let their nobleness be seen in the world; whom the Word calls "the light of the world, and the salt of the earth
Page 50 - a ftranger, and ye took me in : naked, and " ye cloathed me : fick, and ye vifited me : in
Page 57 - treasure " we carry " in an earthen vessel,"" fortified by the power of God the Father and the blood of God the Son and the dew of the Holy Spirit.
Page 49 - ... fears, desires, angers, griefs, deceits, pleasures ? Of all these wounds the only healer is JESUS, cutting out entirely every passion by the roots, not as the Law did, the porduce merely, the fruits of the pernicious plants, but laying His own axe to the roots of iniquity. This is He who pours the wine, the blood of the vine of David, into our wounded souls ; who from the tender mercies of the FATHER brings oil, and that in abundance : this is He who makes known to us the indissoluble bands of...