The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields: I-VIClarendon Press, 1826 - Sermons, English |
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... grace her triumphs or her funeral , is known only to the sovereign Disposer of events ; yet this , my Lord , all that wish well to our church conclude , that God bestowed you upon her as a token of love : for which they have sufficient ...
... grace her triumphs or her funeral , is known only to the sovereign Disposer of events ; yet this , my Lord , all that wish well to our church conclude , that God bestowed you upon her as a token of love : for which they have sufficient ...
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... grace and glory , sin and hell , as there is between fire and heat , frost and cold , or any other necessary cause and its effect . For if they were but throughly persuaded of this , they would easily discern what wretched nonsense it ...
... grace and glory , sin and hell , as there is between fire and heat , frost and cold , or any other necessary cause and its effect . For if they were but throughly persuaded of this , they would easily discern what wretched nonsense it ...
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... grace of God will render them pos- sible to us , if we be not wanting to ourselves , 291. fifthly , that though they are difficult , yet they are fairly consistent with all our other necessary occasions , 293. sixthly , that the ...
... grace of God will render them pos- sible to us , if we be not wanting to ourselves , 291. fifthly , that though they are difficult , yet they are fairly consistent with all our other necessary occasions , 293. sixthly , that the ...
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... grace and glory is not in kind , but in degree : for grace is the seed of glory , and glory is the maturity of grace . It is knowledge exalted above all error and prejudice , above all difficulty or obscurity of ap- prehension ; it is ...
... grace and glory is not in kind , but in degree : for grace is the seed of glory , and glory is the maturity of grace . It is knowledge exalted above all error and prejudice , above all difficulty or obscurity of ap- prehension ; it is ...
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... grace which accompanies religion does ordinarily work its effects upon the spirits of men , not by an instanta- neous infusion of virtuous habits into the will , but by persuading them to the practice of those virtues that are contrary ...
... grace which accompanies religion does ordinarily work its effects upon the spirits of men , not by an instanta- neous infusion of virtuous habits into the will , but by persuading them to the practice of those virtues that are contrary ...
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Page 469 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 328 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 469 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 471 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 259 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 367 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 474 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 474 - 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 473 - 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 234 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.