The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2L.B. Seeley, and Baldwin, Chadock and Joy, 1816 - Theology |
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... better for them that they had never been born : more tolerable will it be for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment , than for them . Depend upon God's blessing your endea- vours , in thus setting up his altar ; and , while you feel ...
... better for them that they had never been born : more tolerable will it be for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment , than for them . Depend upon God's blessing your endea- vours , in thus setting up his altar ; and , while you feel ...
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... better suffer the present remonstrances and objections of our families , than be the means of their enduring the worm that never dies and the fire that never will be quenched : " for whatever , " says a certain author , " is added to ...
... better suffer the present remonstrances and objections of our families , than be the means of their enduring the worm that never dies and the fire that never will be quenched : " for whatever , " says a certain author , " is added to ...
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... better than this world can supply : and we will now turn to the consideration of it . From David's COMPLAINT , in the words of our text , we turn II . To his CONSOLATION : Although my house be not so with God , yet he hath made with me ...
... better than this world can supply : and we will now turn to the consideration of it . From David's COMPLAINT , in the words of our text , we turn II . To his CONSOLATION : Although my house be not so with God , yet he hath made with me ...
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... better righteousness ; that I must even travel by myself in this road to heaven , I answer , So be it : I am satisfied . ' " We have seen , then , that David , as well as we , had great complaints to make ; but he espies , flies to ...
... better righteousness ; that I must even travel by myself in this road to heaven , I answer , So be it : I am satisfied . ' " We have seen , then , that David , as well as we , had great complaints to make ; but he espies , flies to ...
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... better comforts than this world can afford , you are under an im- position . You are deceived . You are seeking the living among the dead . Instead , therefore , of murmuring , and repining , and desponding , because present things are ...
... better comforts than this world can afford , you are under an im- position . You are deceived . You are seeking the living among the dead . Instead , therefore , of murmuring , and repining , and desponding , because present things are ...
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Page 375 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 28 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Page 491 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 227 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 169 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 299 - For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Page 305 - THEN Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us ? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 33 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes : but what are they among so many?
Page 530 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 98 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David...