A Treatise on the Keeping of the HeartA. Blauvelt, 1801 - 212 pages |
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... satan in the hour of temptation , his main batteries are raised against that fort - royal , the heart ; if he wins that , he wins all , for it commands the whole man : and , alas , how easy a conquest is a neglected heart ! it is no ...
... satan in the hour of temptation , his main batteries are raised against that fort - royal , the heart ; if he wins that , he wins all , for it commands the whole man : and , alas , how easy a conquest is a neglected heart ! it is no ...
Page 36
... satan hath entered victori- ously , and displayed his colours upon the walls of that royal fort ; but , had the heart been well guarded at first , it had never come to this height , the tempta- tion had been stopt in the first or second ...
... satan hath entered victori- ously , and displayed his colours upon the walls of that royal fort ; but , had the heart been well guarded at first , it had never come to this height , the tempta- tion had been stopt in the first or second ...
Page 75
... satan , managing a design against the soul by these vain fears : 1 call them vain , in regard of the frustration of them by providence ; but certainly they are not in vain , as to the end satan aims at in raising them ; for herein he ...
... satan , managing a design against the soul by these vain fears : 1 call them vain , in regard of the frustration of them by providence ; but certainly they are not in vain , as to the end satan aims at in raising them ; for herein he ...
Page 76
... satan's devices ! 5 Rule . Consider solemnly , that thongh the things you fear should really fall out , yet there is more evil in your own fear , than in the thing feared . And that not only as the least evil of sin , is worse than the ...
... satan's devices ! 5 Rule . Consider solemnly , that thongh the things you fear should really fall out , yet there is more evil in your own fear , than in the thing feared . And that not only as the least evil of sin , is worse than the ...
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... satan , and his blasphemous injections ; should he hold your eyes but a few nights waking with horrors of conscience , toss- ing to and fro till the dawning of the day ; should he lead you through the chambers of death , shew you the ...
... satan , and his blasphemous injections ; should he hold your eyes but a few nights waking with horrors of conscience , toss- ing to and fro till the dawning of the day ; should he lead you through the chambers of death , shew you the ...
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Page 107 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
Page 140 - But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Page 136 - For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease : and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and sore broken : I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Page 20 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; He that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; He that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; He that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Page 26 - MY HEART is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Page 116 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 34 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 77 - Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him : but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Page 202 - The law of his God is in his heart ; none of his steps shall slide.
Page 6 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.