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... saith , ' or ' the heathen saith . ' But when traced , even those have been given . ( d ) To the treatises embraced in this volume , which were pub- lished originally and superintended subsequently by the author in different editions ...
... saith , ' or ' the heathen saith . ' But when traced , even those have been given . ( d ) To the treatises embraced in this volume , which were pub- lished originally and superintended subsequently by the author in different editions ...
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... ( saith Solomon ) speaketh supplications . If we were poor in spirit , and saw our own emptiness , it would force us out of ourselves . Alas ! what temptation can we resist , much less overcome , without fresh succour ? What cross can we ...
... ( saith Solomon ) speaketh supplications . If we were poor in spirit , and saw our own emptiness , it would force us out of ourselves . Alas ! what temptation can we resist , much less overcome , without fresh succour ? What cross can we ...
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... saith well , Non bene vivitur , ubi bene de Deo non creditur : men of an ill belief , cannot be of a good life ; whereupon the apostles ' method is , to build their exhortations to Christian duties upon the grounds of Christian faith ...
... saith well , Non bene vivitur , ubi bene de Deo non creditur : men of an ill belief , cannot be of a good life ; whereupon the apostles ' method is , to build their exhortations to Christian duties upon the grounds of Christian faith ...
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... ( saith he ) it is apparant in al Histories that when greivous Tempests are comming upon a People , The Lord is wont to withdraw his especial servants into the Haven beforehand , we agrees with yt of ye Prophet Isay 2. 2 , 3 , 5. Behold ...
... ( saith he ) it is apparant in al Histories that when greivous Tempests are comming upon a People , The Lord is wont to withdraw his especial servants into the Haven beforehand , we agrees with yt of ye Prophet Isay 2. 2 , 3 , 5. Behold ...
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... saith , he shall not strive , nor cry , neither shall his voice be heard in the streets ; ' he shall not yield to any ostentation , for he came in an abased state to work our salvation ; he shall not be contentious , nor yet clamorous ...
... saith , he shall not strive , nor cry , neither shall his voice be heard in the streets ; ' he shall not yield to any ostentation , for he came in an abased state to work our salvation ; he shall not be contentious , nor yet clamorous ...
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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.