Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs, in Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and EarthJ. and A. Duncan, booksellers, Glasgow, 1793 - 371 pages |
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... ftill in the warm and pathetic address , in which he enforced the practice of them . He peculiarly excelled in the ample and free offers of Chrift he made to his hearers : and the captivating and al- luring methods he used , for gaining ...
... ftill in the warm and pathetic address , in which he enforced the practice of them . He peculiarly excelled in the ample and free offers of Chrift he made to his hearers : and the captivating and al- luring methods he used , for gaining ...
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... ftill their primary attempt to draw Their life and comfort from the vet'ran law ; They flee not to the hope the gospel gives ; To truft a promife bare , their minds aggrieves , Which judge the man that does , the man that lives . As ...
... ftill their primary attempt to draw Their life and comfort from the vet'ran law ; They flee not to the hope the gospel gives ; To truft a promife bare , their minds aggrieves , Which judge the man that does , the man that lives . As ...
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... ftill he makes the fiery law at least Pronounce its awful fentence in her breaft , Till through the law * convict of being loft , She hopeless to the law gives up the ghoft : Which now in rigour comes full debt to crave And in close ...
... ftill he makes the fiery law at least Pronounce its awful fentence in her breaft , Till through the law * convict of being loft , She hopeless to the law gives up the ghoft : Which now in rigour comes full debt to crave And in close ...
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... ftill by the law of works . Hence flow the following evils more or lefs Preferring oft her partial holy drefs , Before her Husband's perfect righteoufnefs . Hence joying more in grace already giv'n Than in her Head and stock that's all ...
... ftill by the law of works . Hence flow the following evils more or lefs Preferring oft her partial holy drefs , Before her Husband's perfect righteoufnefs . Hence joying more in grace already giv'n Than in her Head and stock that's all ...
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... ftill push the bride the legal way . So hot the war , her life's a troubled flood , A field of battle , and a scene of blood . But he that once commenc'd the work in her , Whofe working fingers drop the fweeteft myrrh , Will ftill ...
... ftill push the bride the legal way . So hot the war , her life's a troubled flood , A field of battle , and a scene of blood . But he that once commenc'd the work in her , Whofe working fingers drop the fweeteft myrrh , Will ftill ...
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Page 225 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old ? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 323 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Page 259 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 193 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 235 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand ; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Page 211 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 166 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 312 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 212 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 229 - As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven : not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead : he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.