Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, 1. köideM. Carey and son, 1818 |
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... remains of self - love , wished to return an answer to the Cardinal , worthy of the charge he had received . This office he entrusted to Massillon , who performed it with as much readiness as success . The Cardinal , astonished at re ...
... remains of self - love , wished to return an answer to the Cardinal , worthy of the charge he had received . This office he entrusted to Massillon , who performed it with as much readiness as success . The Cardinal , astonished at re ...
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... remains for you to re- flect upon salvation : But , in order to tranquillize your- selves , you say , that some future day , when you shall be more at ease ; when affairs of a certain nature shall be terminated ; when particular ...
... remains for you to re- flect upon salvation : But , in order to tranquillize your- selves , you say , that some future day , when you shall be more at ease ; when affairs of a certain nature shall be terminated ; when particular ...
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... remains of that yoke which is irksome to you ; and which , in lessening your pleasures , lessons not your punishment . Why do you accomplish your perdition with so much constraint ? In place of those scruples , which permit you only ...
... remains of that yoke which is irksome to you ; and which , in lessening your pleasures , lessons not your punishment . Why do you accomplish your perdition with so much constraint ? In place of those scruples , which permit you only ...
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... remains , there- fore , only one resource , which is penitence . After our shipwreck , say the saints , it is the happy plank which a- lone can conduct us into port ; there is no other means of salvation for us . Be you whom you may ...
... remains , there- fore , only one resource , which is penitence . After our shipwreck , say the saints , it is the happy plank which a- lone can conduct us into port ; there is no other means of salvation for us . Be you whom you may ...
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... remains of the children of Israel who shall inherit salvation , what are they , compared to the grains of sand in the sea ; I mean , to that number of sin- ners who prepare their own destruction ; After this , my brethren , can you ...
... remains of the children of Israel who shall inherit salvation , what are they , compared to the grains of sand in the sea ; I mean , to that number of sin- ners who prepare their own destruction ; After this , my brethren , can you ...
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Page iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 84 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page iv - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chans, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
Page 447 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 130 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 84 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page iv - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 489 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said ; It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 382 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 308 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.