Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 4L. Nichols, 1805 - Sermons, French |
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... endeavor- ing to inspire christians with charity : not with that partial charity , which inclines us to pity and relieve the miseries of a few distressed neighbors : but with that universal love , which induces all the disciples of ...
... endeavor- ing to inspire christians with charity : not with that partial charity , which inclines us to pity and relieve the miseries of a few distressed neighbors : but with that universal love , which induces all the disciples of ...
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... endeavor to restrain them , ought to be considered as exercises of our virtue prescribed by our Creator ; and not as criminal effects of the obstinacy of the creature . The sins , into a commission of which they beguile us , ought ...
... endeavor to restrain them , ought to be considered as exercises of our virtue prescribed by our Creator ; and not as criminal effects of the obstinacy of the creature . The sins , into a commission of which they beguile us , ought ...
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... endeavor so to ar- range our affairs that our professions may stimulate us to obedience , and that every thing around us may direct our attention to God . Alas ! in spite of all our precautions , sin will too often carry us away ; we ...
... endeavor so to ar- range our affairs that our professions may stimulate us to obedience , and that every thing around us may direct our attention to God . Alas ! in spite of all our precautions , sin will too often carry us away ; we ...
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... endeavor to make you ac- knowledge and reform them ? My brethren ! if we love virtue , we love all the means , that lead to it , and with peculiar pleasure behold them , who recommend it . Nothing is more opposite to that general ...
... endeavor to make you ac- knowledge and reform them ? My brethren ! if we love virtue , we love all the means , that lead to it , and with peculiar pleasure behold them , who recommend it . Nothing is more opposite to that general ...
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... endeavor to explain and establish. They will afford matter for two discourses, the first on the chief virtues, and the last on the least, or, more strictly speaking, the less considerable. Some preliminary remarks, however, are ...
... endeavor to explain and establish. They will afford matter for two discourses, the first on the chief virtues, and the last on the least, or, more strictly speaking, the less considerable. Some preliminary remarks, however, are ...
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Page 31 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 218 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews : to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law ; To them that are without law...
Page 318 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 68 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 65 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 351 - I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Page 30 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
Page 306 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 245 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 273 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,