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... convoy us to that impaf- fible state , where all tears fhall be wiped from our eyes , where there fhall be no more death , nor for- row , nor crying , nor pain , Rev. 21. 4 . The OF CONTENTS . Chap . I. TH He character of THE PREFACE .
... convoy us to that impaf- fible state , where all tears fhall be wiped from our eyes , where there fhall be no more death , nor for- row , nor crying , nor pain , Rev. 21. 4 . The OF CONTENTS . Chap . I. TH He character of THE PREFACE .
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... death unto death . Now of this divine art of Tacticks and de- fence , Christianity is the only School , and there- fore moft fitly qualified for the producing all those fupernatural excellencies to which the timely pre- poffeffion of ...
... death unto death . Now of this divine art of Tacticks and de- fence , Christianity is the only School , and there- fore moft fitly qualified for the producing all those fupernatural excellencies to which the timely pre- poffeffion of ...
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... the Ills , deftructive or affrightful unto humane Nature . There shall be no more death , nor forrow , nor crying , nor pain , B 2 Revel . Revel . 21. 4. Here alafs we are infested by Chap.1 . The Character of Chriftian Religion , & c . 7.
... the Ills , deftructive or affrightful unto humane Nature . There shall be no more death , nor forrow , nor crying , nor pain , B 2 Revel . Revel . 21. 4. Here alafs we are infested by Chap.1 . The Character of Chriftian Religion , & c . 7.
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... death , the grand devourer , and spares not life it felf . Nay , thofe little refpites which we have from thefe , are fo embittered by unpleafant expectations and Pre- fages , that we are fad before we are afflicted : in pain without a ...
... death , the grand devourer , and spares not life it felf . Nay , thofe little refpites which we have from thefe , are fo embittered by unpleafant expectations and Pre- fages , that we are fad before we are afflicted : in pain without a ...
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... death , that fends us but to take poffeffion of the Crown of Life . Upon fuch fure grounds does our Chri- stianity fet us.While we make good its condition it puls out the fting of all that is moft deadly . And in a more comprehenfive ...
... death , that fends us but to take poffeffion of the Crown of Life . Upon fuch fure grounds does our Chri- stianity fet us.While we make good its condition it puls out the fting of all that is moft deadly . And in a more comprehenfive ...
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Page 5 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 405 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 10 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 236 - Let us fall into the hands of God, and not into the hands of men; for they are severe and cruel judges of each other.•
Page 406 - If there be therefore any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort. of love, if any fellow/hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies ; fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 247 - Certainly," says Bishop Fell, " the first propagators of our faith proceeded at another rate ; they well knew, that not the brain but'the heart was the proper soil of that celestial plant, and therefore did not amuse their proselytes with curious questions, but set them to the active part of their religion.