The family pastor: or, Short sermons for family reading, by a clergyman of the Church of England1846 - 166 pages |
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... promise of becoming emi- nently rich or great in this world , for such a promise God has never made to his chil- dren . On the contrary , Christ has said to them repeatedly , My kingdom is not of this world . Yet though he has not pro ...
... promise of becoming emi- nently rich or great in this world , for such a promise God has never made to his chil- dren . On the contrary , Christ has said to them repeatedly , My kingdom is not of this world . Yet though he has not pro ...
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... promise to the present state . Besides the earth that now is , they shall also inherit the new heavens and the new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . Then , indeed , will the meek fully possess the earth which shall be purified ...
... promise to the present state . Besides the earth that now is , they shall also inherit the new heavens and the new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . Then , indeed , will the meek fully possess the earth which shall be purified ...
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... promises ; wait in his appointed way . Though every circumstance may induce weak human nature to think that the word of God's promise will fail , still believe what the Lord has said . Whatever He has promised with regard to His Church ...
... promises ; wait in his appointed way . Though every circumstance may induce weak human nature to think that the word of God's promise will fail , still believe what the Lord has said . Whatever He has promised with regard to His Church ...
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... that God pledged himself anew to be gracious , and to fulfil to him and to his seed all the promises to Abraham and to Isaac . And every child of God may trust that he is under the same protection , that all the thoughts of SERMON V. 63.
... that God pledged himself anew to be gracious , and to fulfil to him and to his seed all the promises to Abraham and to Isaac . And every child of God may trust that he is under the same protection , that all the thoughts of SERMON V. 63.
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... promises made to the Church and to him through Christ , will assuredly be fulfilled . At the same time we may be confident that , however soli- tary we may seem and feel , as we pass through desert places in the journey through the ...
... promises made to the Church and to him through Christ , will assuredly be fulfilled . At the same time we may be confident that , however soli- tary we may seem and feel , as we pass through desert places in the journey through the ...
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Page 142 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 56 - If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments, if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.
Page 55 - 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 54 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 147 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 150 - He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Page 55 - T'RULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Page 145 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart; this is he which received seed by the way side.
Page 62 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Page 133 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these ,• Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.