The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. in Nine VolumesLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1812 |
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... awaken him to inward shame and penitence ; may rouse his virtue to shine brighter than ever , and scatter the clouds that hung dark upon the evidence of his graces . Since I first published these discourses † , the world has been ...
... awaken him to inward shame and penitence ; may rouse his virtue to shine brighter than ever , and scatter the clouds that hung dark upon the evidence of his graces . Since I first published these discourses † , the world has been ...
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... awaken myself and my friends to an immediate and constant readiness for a dismission from this sinful , and sorrowful , and tempting world : And God grant when that awful hour ap- proaches , I may be so far honoured by divine grace , as ...
... awaken myself and my friends to an immediate and constant readiness for a dismission from this sinful , and sorrowful , and tempting world : And God grant when that awful hour ap- proaches , I may be so far honoured by divine grace , as ...
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... awaken you to acquaint your- selves with some arguments that will justify and support your belief of the gospel . Suppose you think you have complied with the rules of your religion , and have raised your hopes of heaven to a high ...
... awaken you to acquaint your- selves with some arguments that will justify and support your belief of the gospel . Suppose you think you have complied with the rules of your religion , and have raised your hopes of heaven to a high ...
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... awaken our intemperate passions , and walk onward in peace and pleasure towards our complete felicity . For since God is become our God through the mediation of his Son , we have no need to seek the meaner delights of sense and appetite ...
... awaken our intemperate passions , and walk onward in peace and pleasure towards our complete felicity . For since God is become our God through the mediation of his Son , we have no need to seek the meaner delights of sense and appetite ...
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... awaken our desires , fill our hearts with pleasure or pain , and our flesh with constant labour . With what holy scorn do you think those souls , who are dismissed from flesh , look down upon the hurries and bustles of this present ...
... awaken our desires , fill our hearts with pleasure or pain , and our flesh with constant labour . With what holy scorn do you think those souls , who are dismissed from flesh , look down upon the hurries and bustles of this present ...
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Page 92 - the commandments; do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not. bear false witness, defraud not, honour thy father and mother. 20. And he answered, and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21. Then Jesus beholding him, loved him, and said unto 'him, one thing
Page 432 - besought him not to go up to that city. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart ¥ For I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 1
Page 556 - who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the Father of many nations, according to that which was spoken ; so shall thy seed be. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to
Page 313 - Christians at Ephesus the same advice; Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Talk of something that may improve one another in knowledge, in virtue, in religion : And let each of us be ashamed to think that we have been an hour
Page 311 - Let your conversation be with fear ; whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and wearing of gold; 1 Tim. ii.
Page 105 - perdition: for the love of money is the root of all evil; which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, have
Page 313 - gravity, and sincerity; sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil to say of you. He gives
Page 328 - been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things; because it was from the Jews that the gospel first came forth, and was preached among the Gentiles;
Page 297 - go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what "shall be on
Page 242 - relief for all his woe ? Where shall the guilty conscience find Ease for the torment of the mind ? How shall we get our crimes forgiven, Or form our natures fit for heaven ; Can souls all o'er defil'd with sin ; Make their own powers and passions clean? In