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... Christ , Weaknesses what , · How to recover lost peace , Use 4. Let us frame our conceits accordingly , and not believe Satan's representations of Christ to us , 68 2 58 588 FE 62 65 66 67 68 69 71 Or of us unto ourselves , 71 Use 5 ...
... Christ , Weaknesses what , · How to recover lost peace , Use 4. Let us frame our conceits accordingly , and not believe Satan's representations of Christ to us , 68 2 58 588 FE 62 65 66 67 68 69 71 Or of us unto ourselves , 71 Use 5 ...
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... Christian's course , Where true wisdom and judgment is , there Christ sets up his government , • The best method for practice , Use 2. There is no true judgment where the life is ill governed , Conclusion 3. Christ's government is ...
... Christian's course , Where true wisdom and judgment is , there Christ sets up his government , • The best method for practice , Use 2. There is no true judgment where the life is ill governed , Conclusion 3. Christ's government is ...
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... Christian faith would soon be shaken , and the church of God , which is a house of order , would become a Babel , a house of confusion . The doleful issues of which pretended liberty , we see in Polonia , Transylvania , and in countries ...
... Christian faith would soon be shaken , and the church of God , which is a house of order , would become a Babel , a house of confusion . The doleful issues of which pretended liberty , we see in Polonia , Transylvania , and in countries ...
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... Christian Reader : ' - The leading of a happy life ( the attainment whereof this treatise directeth unto ) is that ... Christian Reader , ' prefixed to Treatise of Faith , supra . this office it performeth in all the several stations of ...
... Christian Reader : ' - The leading of a happy life ( the attainment whereof this treatise directeth unto ) is that ... Christian Reader , ' prefixed to Treatise of Faith , supra . this office it performeth in all the several stations of ...
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... Christian Reader . CHRISTIAN READER - Innumerable are the sleights of Satan , to hinder a Christian in his course towards heaven , by exciting the corruption of his own heart to disturb him , when he is about to do any good ; or by dis ...
... Christian Reader . CHRISTIAN READER - Innumerable are the sleights of Satan , to hinder a Christian in his course towards heaven , by exciting the corruption of his own heart to disturb him , when he is about to do any good ; or by dis ...
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Page 76 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 29 - He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets ; a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench ; till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Page 373 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Page 101 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 129 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Page 320 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 106 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page lxv - ... as if they could make God earthly and fleshly because they could not make themselves heavenly and spiritual ; they began to draw down all the divine intercourse betwixt God and the soul ; yea, the very shape of God Himself, into an exterior and bodily form, urgently pretending a necessity and obligement of joining the body in a formal reverence and worship circumscribed ; they hallowed it, they fumed it, they sprinkled it, they bedecked it...
Page xxx - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page cxxxi - Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.