The Christian Contemplated in a Course of Lectures: Delivered in Argyle Chapel, BathLincoln & Edmands, 1828 - 382 pages |
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... happiness of believers ! Their life is hid with Christ in God ! How incapable of rupture is the connexion between them and God , unless the medium that unites them can fail ! But " I am persuaded that neither death , nor life , nor ...
... happiness of believers ! Their life is hid with Christ in God ! How incapable of rupture is the connexion between them and God , unless the medium that unites them can fail ! But " I am persuaded that neither death , nor life , nor ...
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... happiness involved in it , we find it hard to persuade ourselves that we have a firm hold of it ; we are alive and awake to every supposition of un- certainty : we still want proof and confirmation . Does the miser feel it easy to ...
... happiness involved in it , we find it hard to persuade ourselves that we have a firm hold of it ; we are alive and awake to every supposition of un- certainty : we still want proof and confirmation . Does the miser feel it easy to ...
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... happiness depends upon it— and that this life is your only opportunity - and that this season is not only short , but uncertain - and that " in such an hour as ye think not , the Son of Man cometh ! " Yet you call yourselves rational ...
... happiness depends upon it— and that this life is your only opportunity - and that this season is not only short , but uncertain - and that " in such an hour as ye think not , the Son of Man cometh ! " Yet you call yourselves rational ...
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... or mopishness , or an escape from expense , care , and trouble , to a state which was designed to com- plete the happiness of Adam in Paradise ; and which Inspiration has pronounced to be " honourable in all . 74 THE CHRISTIAN ,
... or mopishness , or an escape from expense , care , and trouble , to a state which was designed to com- plete the happiness of Adam in Paradise ; and which Inspiration has pronounced to be " honourable in all . 74 THE CHRISTIAN ,
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... happiness or misery seems suspended on the success . Indeed , whatever we keep concealed within , is like- ly to lose some of its hold upon us : it is by speaking of it , by pushing it forward , by acting constantly up- on it , that we ...
... happiness or misery seems suspended on the success . Indeed , whatever we keep concealed within , is like- ly to lose some of its hold upon us : it is by speaking of it , by pushing it forward , by acting constantly up- on it , that we ...
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Page 134 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant ; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 145 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Page 346 - For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead...
Page 121 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 352 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Page 75 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 365 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
Page xix - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To...
Page 162 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread.
Page 212 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.