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... honours , favours , friendship and greatness , and the more we look to God with a single eye , and covet his honour , favour , friendship and riches , the more shall we expe- rience a growth in the very root , and in all the branches of ...
... honours , favours , friendship and greatness , and the more we look to God with a single eye , and covet his honour , favour , friendship and riches , the more shall we expe- rience a growth in the very root , and in all the branches of ...
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... honoured , being inwardly convicted from the consciousness of my own vile and unguarded conduct . Sometimes I re- ceived from some of them the reproof I deserv- ed ; and sometimes I thought their very silence rebuked me . At other times ...
... honoured , being inwardly convicted from the consciousness of my own vile and unguarded conduct . Sometimes I re- ceived from some of them the reproof I deserv- ed ; and sometimes I thought their very silence rebuked me . At other times ...
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... honour , and requires our going clean through all that humiliation , labour and patience , which his light in the conscience disco- vers to be necessary for repairing the dishonour incurred . All palliations or softening excuses ; all ...
... honour , and requires our going clean through all that humiliation , labour and patience , which his light in the conscience disco- vers to be necessary for repairing the dishonour incurred . All palliations or softening excuses ; all ...
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... honoured my worthy master , yet every thing else was not as I could wish it . I thought I could foresee much hardship , to be unavoidably my lot : yet as my father had so agreed , I thought it my duty to comply . I endeavoured to put a ...
... honoured my worthy master , yet every thing else was not as I could wish it . I thought I could foresee much hardship , to be unavoidably my lot : yet as my father had so agreed , I thought it my duty to comply . I endeavoured to put a ...
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... honoured , being inwardly convicted from the consciousness of my own vile and unguarded conduct . Sometimes I re- ceived from some of them the reproof I deserv- ed ; and sometimes I thought their very silence rebuked me . At other times ...
... honoured , being inwardly convicted from the consciousness of my own vile and unguarded conduct . Sometimes I re- ceived from some of them the reproof I deserv- ed ; and sometimes I thought their very silence rebuked me . At other times ...
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Page 250 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 249 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 253 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 308 - ... but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands ; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord ; whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Page 280 - The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ...
Page 136 - As no one knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man that is in him ; so the manner of the things of God knoweth no one, save the Spirit of God.
Page 307 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 164 - the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church...
Page 324 - England, how he is come to answer his eating and drinking the passover and last supper with his disciples, saying, He would drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until he drank it new with them in his Father's kingdom. Now he that hath experienced what this eating and drinking is...
Page 243 - Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we ? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.