Sermons, Volume 1J. Burns, 1842 |
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... grown , and multiplied both in the mani- fold kind and energy of evil . It is plain to all , that ( except , as I said , in penitents ) the whole life of a man from birth to death is a ... grow into the sins I. ] 7 THE MYSTERY OF SIN .
... grown , and multiplied both in the mani- fold kind and energy of evil . It is plain to all , that ( except , as I said , in penitents ) the whole life of a man from birth to death is a ... grow into the sins I. ] 7 THE MYSTERY OF SIN .
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... grows better , he must needs grow worse ? Even they whose sins do not grow more open and profligate , are nevertheless deteriorating . They grow impure in thought and will , if not in act ; or hard , worldly , selfish , and unthankful ...
... grows better , he must needs grow worse ? Even they whose sins do not grow more open and profligate , are nevertheless deteriorating . They grow impure in thought and will , if not in act ; or hard , worldly , selfish , and unthankful ...
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... grow up to a certain height of the moral stature , and are cut down and laid in the earth : their chil- dren rise up more or less to the same standard , within certain limits which are the conditions of our being and of our probation ...
... grow up to a certain height of the moral stature , and are cut down and laid in the earth : their chil- dren rise up more or less to the same standard , within certain limits which are the conditions of our being and of our probation ...
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... growing holier ; and the Church has been edified continually , and is rising towards its perfection . I am speaking not of the Church , but of the world , and only notice it lest it should seem to be an objection which has been ...
... growing holier ; and the Church has been edified continually , and is rising towards its perfection . I am speaking not of the Church , but of the world , and only notice it lest it should seem to be an objection which has been ...
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... grow more intensely sinful ; but that God , in His mercy , is working even more mightily , counteracting all , both the original and accumulated powers of evil . " Where sin And that is most certainly true . I. ] 13 THE MYSTERY OF SIN .
... grow more intensely sinful ; but that God , in His mercy , is working even more mightily , counteracting all , both the original and accumulated powers of evil . " Where sin And that is most certainly true . I. ] 13 THE MYSTERY OF SIN .
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Page ix - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation : Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Page 250 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page x - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?
Page 365 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Page 37 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 208 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Page viii - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page viii - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 125 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! Woe unto thee Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 174 - And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.