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... mind , that they who run into them cannot hope to raise to them- selves the esteem due to the sacred function , which is the foundation of all the good they can do by their labours ? " ( pp . 181 , 182. ) Were such sentiments as ...
... mind , that they who run into them cannot hope to raise to them- selves the esteem due to the sacred function , which is the foundation of all the good they can do by their labours ? " ( pp . 181 , 182. ) Were such sentiments as ...
Page xx
... mind of a sinner , even on a death - bed , be truly renewed and turned to God , so great is His mercy , that He will receive him even in that extremity . " Charity itself could but express a hope like this : " I do verily believe , that ...
... mind of a sinner , even on a death - bed , be truly renewed and turned to God , so great is His mercy , that He will receive him even in that extremity . " Charity itself could but express a hope like this : " I do verily believe , that ...
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... minds of some , who are perhaps sensible that many things in it touch them in too tender a part , yet on the other hand it has brought me such serious acknowledgments from many persons , to me otherwise unknown but by their letters , of ...
... minds of some , who are perhaps sensible that many things in it touch them in too tender a part , yet on the other hand it has brought me such serious acknowledgments from many persons , to me otherwise unknown but by their letters , of ...
Page xli
... mind and do our duty with more zeal and application than ever . It is very visible , that in this present age the reformation is not only at a stand , but is going back , and grows sensibly weaker and weaker . Some churches have been ...
... mind and do our duty with more zeal and application than ever . It is very visible , that in this present age the reformation is not only at a stand , but is going back , and grows sensibly weaker and weaker . Some churches have been ...
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... minds , but very hardly rooted out of them . For though it is very easy to beat an inquirer into things out of all speculative atheism ; yet when a disbelief of sacred matters , and a profane contempt of them , has once vitiated one's mind ...
... minds , but very hardly rooted out of them . For though it is very easy to beat an inquirer into things out of all speculative atheism ; yet when a disbelief of sacred matters , and a profane contempt of them , has once vitiated one's mind ...
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Page 16 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 26 - Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Page 28 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 87 - Be to the flock of CHRIST a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not. Hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek the lost.
Page 30 - I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Page 33 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 17 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Page 14 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 18 - For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Page 24 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.