Practical Discourses, on Regeneration: In Ten Sermons ... To which are Added Two Sermons, on the Scripture Doctrine of Salvation by Grace Through Faith |
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... reason to believe the divine blessing had in some measure attended these sermons from the pul- pit , and had made them the means of producing and advancing the change they described and enforced : On these considerations , as soon as I ...
... reason to believe the divine blessing had in some measure attended these sermons from the pul- pit , and had made them the means of producing and advancing the change they described and enforced : On these considerations , as soon as I ...
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... reason I have o- mitted many phrases , used particularly of late by some pious and worthy persons , because I freely own , that as I cannot find them in my Bible , so nei- ther can I understand their exact meaning ; and it seems very ...
... reason I have o- mitted many phrases , used particularly of late by some pious and worthy persons , because I freely own , that as I cannot find them in my Bible , so nei- ther can I understand their exact meaning ; and it seems very ...
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... reason for bringing Scripture phrases into disuse , while we keep to the original ideas signified by them . There seems to be a peculiar felicity in them to express Divine truth ; and they will undoubtedly be found i the safest vehicle ...
... reason for bringing Scripture phrases into disuse , while we keep to the original ideas signified by them . There seems to be a peculiar felicity in them to express Divine truth ; and they will undoubtedly be found i the safest vehicle ...
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... , with some plausible probability at least , that baptism , by which they are admitted into that society , may be called Regeneration : and I am ready to believe , as I hint- ed above , that this was the chief reason why POSTSCRIPT .
... , with some plausible probability at least , that baptism , by which they are admitted into that society , may be called Regeneration : and I am ready to believe , as I hint- ed above , that this was the chief reason why POSTSCRIPT .
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... reason why the ancients so often used the word in the sense I am now opposing . Now with relation to this , I desire it may be re- collected , that when Christianity first appeared in the world , it was attended with such discourage ...
... reason why the ancients so often used the word in the sense I am now opposing . Now with relation to this , I desire it may be re- collected , that when Christianity first appeared in the world , it was attended with such discourage ...
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Page 206 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers : the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Page 125 - ... and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst...
Page 131 - 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 130 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 89 - Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin ? 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Page 206 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page 126 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 247 - ... filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding ; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God ; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness...
Page 282 - LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
Page 27 - So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.