Sermons on Various Subjects: By the Rev. William Woollcombe, ...

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Trewman and Son; sold also by Messrs. Rivington, London, 1798 - 292 pages
 

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Page 162 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 20 - For do I now persuade men, or God ? or do I seek to please men ? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Page 194 - Wherefore, of these men which have companied with us, all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 250 - So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 147 - ... Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; And there is no health in us.
Page 149 - How then can man be justified with God ? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman ? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm ? And the son of man, which is a worm...
Page 14 - Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help- him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : My judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : And the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 250 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind ; to set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 213 - the secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever, that we may do all the words of the law.
Page 150 - Who is he that condemneth ? It is Chrift that died; yea rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who alfo maketh intercejjion for us.

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