The family pastor: or, Short sermons for family reading, by a clergyman of the Church of England1846 - 166 pages |
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... regard it with admir- ing wonder ! Christ has delivered men from the wrath of God , and secured for them eternal life . But to be so happy as to have an interest in Christ , we must be his disciples . Are we then his disciples ? Do we ...
... regard it with admir- ing wonder ! Christ has delivered men from the wrath of God , and secured for them eternal life . But to be so happy as to have an interest in Christ , we must be his disciples . Are we then his disciples ? Do we ...
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... regard earthly ob- jects . His religious profession will be steady and consistent ; and though there may be seasons of darkness , nay , and even , as in David's case , there may be back- sliding , yet he that has the Spirit will deeply ...
... regard earthly ob- jects . His religious profession will be steady and consistent ; and though there may be seasons of darkness , nay , and even , as in David's case , there may be back- sliding , yet he that has the Spirit will deeply ...
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... regard to all the offices which the scripture had revealed that he should sus- tain . Upon his kingly office , when they crowned him with thorns , arrayed him in purple , bowed the knee before him in mockery , and cried " Hail , king of ...
... regard to all the offices which the scripture had revealed that he should sus- tain . Upon his kingly office , when they crowned him with thorns , arrayed him in purple , bowed the knee before him in mockery , and cried " Hail , king of ...
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... urge us to resemble him . Nature , and providence , and grace , will all furnish some arguments to lead us to imitate him , and especially so with regard to his patience and meek- ness . This is the temper with which all our 46 SERMON IV .
... urge us to resemble him . Nature , and providence , and grace , will all furnish some arguments to lead us to imitate him , and especially so with regard to his patience and meek- ness . This is the temper with which all our 46 SERMON IV .
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... regard to His Church and to every member of it , will most surely be fulfilled , but it is not for us to forestall divine appointments and designs . When Isaac commanded Esau to fetch savoury meat , and to dress it , that might bless ...
... regard to His Church and to every member of it , will most surely be fulfilled , but it is not for us to forestall divine appointments and designs . When Isaac commanded Esau to fetch savoury meat , and to dress it , that might bless ...
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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.