Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation:: To which are Added, a Few Hints for Sermons; Intended Chiefly for the Use of the Younger Clergy, Volume 1T. Cadell, and W. Davies, in the Strand., 1804 - Homiletical illustrations |
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... I have every reason to believe I address - with whose character I have had the happi- ness of being acquainted through a period of more than thirty years . I wish , I wish , my dear Sir , the gift were 11 DEDICATION .
... I have every reason to believe I address - with whose character I have had the happi- ness of being acquainted through a period of more than thirty years . I wish , I wish , my dear Sir , the gift were 11 DEDICATION .
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... believe from prophecy , will ftill continue to spread wider and wider , till it hath made its progress over the face of the earth . 1 David in the Pfalm of this day * , illuftrating pro- bably through the spirit of prophecy , this ...
... believe from prophecy , will ftill continue to spread wider and wider , till it hath made its progress over the face of the earth . 1 David in the Pfalm of this day * , illuftrating pro- bably through the spirit of prophecy , this ...
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... believe and give our affent to it . It was not for this , Christ came into the world - it was not for this he was born in a manger , and died on a crofs - but that it should enter into our hearts - that it fhould be the great directing ...
... believe and give our affent to it . It was not for this , Christ came into the world - it was not for this he was born in a manger , and died on a crofs - but that it should enter into our hearts - that it fhould be the great directing ...
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... prudence , our wisdom , or our industry , why then indeed we cut the matter fhort - we then must leave it to be fettled at the great day of accounts , between God , and and our fouls . But if we believe truly in 46 SERMON IV .
... prudence , our wisdom , or our industry , why then indeed we cut the matter fhort - we then must leave it to be fettled at the great day of accounts , between God , and and our fouls . But if we believe truly in 46 SERMON IV .
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... believe truly in the providence of God , as all good chriftians do , we must believe , that every thing is disposed as he hath ordered ; and must confider our confciences engaged to perform the office which depends on the ftation ...
... believe truly in the providence of God , as all good chriftians do , we must believe , that every thing is disposed as he hath ordered ; and must confider our confciences engaged to perform the office which depends on the ftation ...
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affiftance affliction affured againſt alfo Almighty alſo apoſtle arife ariſe atonement Balaam becauſe beſt bleffed bleffed Saviour buſineſs cafe called Chrift chriſtian circumſtances confcience confider courſe defign defire diftreffes doctrine endeavour expreffion fame faved fcripture fecondly feems felves fervants fhall fhew fhort fhould finners firſt fome forrow foul fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fuppofe furely give God's goodneſs goſpel happineſs hath heart himſelf holy hope increaſe inftance inftruction itſelf Jefus juſt leaſt leffon lefs lives Lord mankind means mercy mind Moab moſt muft muſt neceffary obferve occafion ourſelves paffage paffions pafs perfon pleaſe pleaſure prefent promiſes prophecy prophet puniſhment purpoſes queſtion raiſe reafon religion religious rich ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtations ſtill ſuch ſuppoſe thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou tion truft truſt underſtand unleſs uſe wicked wiſh worfe worldly
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Page 75 - Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Page 203 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 424 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 151 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 429 - 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: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 143 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 215 - HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Page 340 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 429 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 73 - Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16.