Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, 5. köideJ. Mathews, 1799 |
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... Those that can retain little of a fermon , yet ordinarily retain an apt fimilitude . I confefs it is an humbling confideration , That man , who at first was led by the knowledge of God to the knowledge of the creature , muft now by the ...
... Those that can retain little of a fermon , yet ordinarily retain an apt fimilitude . I confefs it is an humbling confideration , That man , who at first was led by the knowledge of God to the knowledge of the creature , muft now by the ...
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John Flavel. not more , than you ; but use them to those spiritual ends you are here directed , and they will yield you a sweetness far transcending that natural sweetness you ever relifhed in them ; and indeed , you never use the ...
John Flavel. not more , than you ; but use them to those spiritual ends you are here directed , and they will yield you a sweetness far transcending that natural sweetness you ever relifhed in them ; and indeed , you never use the ...
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... Those whom he took were beggars all before . But refts he here ? No , no , our friend doth know , ' Tis good to have two ftrings unto his bow . Our rare Amphibion loves not to be pent Within the bounds of one poor element . Befides ...
... Those whom he took were beggars all before . But refts he here ? No , no , our friend doth know , ' Tis good to have two ftrings unto his bow . Our rare Amphibion loves not to be pent Within the bounds of one poor element . Befides ...
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... those rural rhymes : 196666 THE PROEM . I COR . iii . 9. re are God's Husbandry . THE fcope and defign of the following chapters , being the fpi- ritual improvement of hufbandry , it will be neceffary , by way of proem , to acquaint the ...
... those rural rhymes : 196666 THE PROEM . I COR . iii . 9. re are God's Husbandry . THE fcope and defign of the following chapters , being the fpi- ritual improvement of hufbandry , it will be neceffary , by way of proem , to acquaint the ...
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... those who break the bread of life to fouls , fhould be fuffered to want bread themfelves . God would not have the mouth of an ox muzzled that treads out the corn , but have liberty to eat as well as work . Yet if any pretender to the ...
... those who break the bread of life to fouls , fhould be fuffered to want bread themfelves . God would not have the mouth of an ox muzzled that treads out the corn , but have liberty to eat as well as work . Yet if any pretender to the ...
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Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 608 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 398 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 78 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...
Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 496 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 303 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 399 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 68 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Page 225 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.