Sermons on Practical Subjects, Volume 3John Brown, 1816 - Presbyterian Church |
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... less than the utter extinc- tion of family - religion . For if once it becomes a maxim , that this duty is below the rank of a gen- tleman , then every one who affects to be thought of that rank will forbear it . In this case , it is ...
... less than the utter extinc- tion of family - religion . For if once it becomes a maxim , that this duty is below the rank of a gen- tleman , then every one who affects to be thought of that rank will forbear it . In this case , it is ...
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... less beauty or propriety in the same acknowledgments offered to the God in whom we live and breathe , and who giveth us all things richly to enjoy ? Doth he set the hedge of his protection around us , and defend us from the many evils ...
... less beauty or propriety in the same acknowledgments offered to the God in whom we live and breathe , and who giveth us all things richly to enjoy ? Doth he set the hedge of his protection around us , and defend us from the many evils ...
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... less apparent , yet every man who allows himself to think , must immediately be convinced , by his own reason and conscience , that such homage is cer- tainly due to God , and that they are highly cri- minal who refuse or neglect to ...
... less apparent , yet every man who allows himself to think , must immediately be convinced , by his own reason and conscience , that such homage is cer- tainly due to God , and that they are highly cri- minal who refuse or neglect to ...
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... Is it not an inevitable conse quence , that all our public devotions must in this case dwindle away into mere hypocrisy and life- less unavailing forms of worship ? I have thus endeavoured to represent to you the manifold 1 24 SERMON I.
... Is it not an inevitable conse quence , that all our public devotions must in this case dwindle away into mere hypocrisy and life- less unavailing forms of worship ? I have thus endeavoured to represent to you the manifold 1 24 SERMON I.
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... less than universal do- minion was promised to the Lord Redeemer . " Ask of me , " says God , ( Psal . ii . 8. ) , " and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance , and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy posses- sion ...
... less than universal do- minion was promised to the Lord Redeemer . " Ask of me , " says God , ( Psal . ii . 8. ) , " and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance , and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy posses- sion ...
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Page 93 - I will judge between cattle and cattle. ^And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 68 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dung-hill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Page 303 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 68 - ... Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine ; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all.
Page 307 - Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
Page 179 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 166 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.
Page 252 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 320 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 166 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.