For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in Nine PartsA. Sherman, 1824 - 407 pages |
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... obedience of the word of God ! And when , by God's visitation we address ourselves to the task , how slow is our progress and how imperfect our performance ! So true is it that Nature is unwilling to the subject of the Scrip- tures ...
... obedience of the word of God ! And when , by God's visitation we address ourselves to the task , how slow is our progress and how imperfect our performance ! So true is it that Nature is unwilling to the subject of the Scrip- tures ...
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... obedience a new obedience , which have to master and put down the truths , affections , and obedience gathered from the apprehension of Na- ture , and the commerce of worldly life . There- fore , there needeth , in one that would be ...
... obedience a new obedience , which have to master and put down the truths , affections , and obedience gathered from the apprehension of Na- ture , and the commerce of worldly life . There- fore , there needeth , in one that would be ...
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... obedience , without knowing or wishing to know aught beyond . To read the Word is , therefore , no ordinary duty , but the mother of all duty , enlightening the eyes and converting the soul , and creating that very conscience to which ...
... obedience , without knowing or wishing to know aught beyond . To read the Word is , therefore , no ordinary duty , but the mother of all duty , enlightening the eyes and converting the soul , and creating that very conscience to which ...
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... is a stark necessity . The life of the soul can at no time proceed without the present sense and obedience of its Maker's government . His law must be present and keep concert with our most inward 40 MANNER OF CONSULTING.
... is a stark necessity . The life of the soul can at no time proceed without the present sense and obedience of its Maker's government . His law must be present and keep concert with our most inward 40 MANNER OF CONSULTING.
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... obedience is an acquiescence in that of whose perfect rectitude we are nothing sure , and hath in it a kind of servility , but this is honour , this is exaltation , to employ all our powers for the poses for which they were given , and ...
... obedience is an acquiescence in that of whose perfect rectitude we are nothing sure , and hath in it a kind of servility , but this is honour , this is exaltation , to employ all our powers for the poses for which they were given , and ...
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Page 355 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Page 505 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 291 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be...
Page 354 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 291 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 195 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God is for ever and ever ; a sceptre of .righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Page 195 - God, the first-born of every creature, by whom all things were created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him ; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist,
Page 188 - His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Page 322 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 425 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.