| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...existence, he aims, in this introductory scene, to ensure felicity in the world to come. He " believes that God is, " and that he is the rewarder of them that dili" gently seek him ;" and therefore he. seeks his favour, as " the one thing needful," and endeavours... | |
| Presbyterian Church - 1806 - 650 pages
...But without faith, it is impossible to please him : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." As soon could Enoch doubt of his own existence, as of the existence of his Maker. Attentively did he... | |
| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 584 pages
...without faith it is impossible to please him ; " for he that cometh unto God must believe that " he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that " diligently seek him." Hence it must follow, either that none but the regenerate are capable even of that lowest exercise... | |
| Christianity - 1808 - 604 pages
..." \Vithout faith it is impossible to please him ; for he that cometh to Goc!, must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Cei-tuiiily the question, How shall \ve come to God ьо as to please and be accepted by him, is important,... | |
| Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis - Bible - 1808 - 638 pages
...that he the foundation of that intercourse, firmly be- "• »"d that he is a lieve that he exists, and [that] he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and will bestow him. some peculiar and important blessings upon them. For where there are no such expectations... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pages
...to grant the requests which we present unto him. " He that cometh unto God, must " believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of " them that diligently seek him.1" It is therefore evident, that all who deny the particular providential government of God; and... | |
| Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1810 - 498 pages
...existence, he aims, in this introductory scene, to ensure felicity in the world to come. He " believes that God is, and that he is the rewarder of *' them that diligently seek him;" and therefore he seeks his favour, as " the one thing needful," and endeavours to render all other objects... | |
| Joshua Toulmin - Sermons, English - 1810 - 506 pages
...that " JESUS is the CHRIST, the Son " of GOD." The fundamental article of natural religion is this ; " that GOD is, and " that He is the rewarder of them that " diligently feek Him." The fundamental article of the Chriftian religion is, that JESUS of Nazareth was the Cbri/l,... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 414 pages
...having recourse to a future state to secure the foundation of Religion, which, St. Paul tells us, is the belief that God is, and that he is the Rewarder of them that seek him. The matter now begins to pinch: and the Doctor must be dumb, or confess that the only possible... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1811 - 206 pages
...; 13, that he is unalterably happy, and infinitely perfect; 14, that no evil can come near him; 15, and that , he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him * Q. What other mystery is revealed concerning God? A. That God, being one in nature, is also" three... | |
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