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... lives of many , blafts the fupports and Joys of more . This confe- quence of hoftility we find well expreft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3. The land is as the Garden of Eden before them , and behind them a defolate wilderness , and herein ...
... lives of many , blafts the fupports and Joys of more . This confe- quence of hoftility we find well expreft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3. The land is as the Garden of Eden before them , and behind them a defolate wilderness , and herein ...
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... lives , and like the fretting leprofie in the house , Levit . 14. 45. can be removed by nothing but its digolution . O then let us not adde this to the heap of our other pro- vocations , miftake impudence or defperation for courage ...
... lives , and like the fretting leprofie in the house , Levit . 14. 45. can be removed by nothing but its digolution . O then let us not adde this to the heap of our other pro- vocations , miftake impudence or defperation for courage ...
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... lives of its profelytes , that it is hard to imagine , that that any branch fhould want a due fertility that is Chap.I. I Chap I He character of Christian Religion, monstrating its aptitude to plant exem- plary Vertue and Sanctity Page-1.
... lives of its profelytes , that it is hard to imagine , that that any branch fhould want a due fertility that is Chap.I. I Chap I He character of Christian Religion, monstrating its aptitude to plant exem- plary Vertue and Sanctity Page-1.
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... lives ; leave us not a Gourd , which is not like that of Jonah , smitten with thefe Worms : and then comes death , the grand devourer , and spares not life it felf . Nay , thofe little refpites which we have from thefe , are fo ...
... lives ; leave us not a Gourd , which is not like that of Jonah , smitten with thefe Worms : and then comes death , the grand devourer , and spares not life it felf . Nay , thofe little refpites which we have from thefe , are fo ...
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... lives of Chriftians were the tranfcripts of their doctrine they render'd it vene- rable to all , and gave a prefumption there was fomething more than humane in it , that could work fuch fignal effects , that could fo transform men as to ...
... lives of Chriftians were the tranfcripts of their doctrine they render'd it vene- rable to all , and gave a prefumption there was fomething more than humane in it , that could work fuch fignal effects , that could fo transform men as to ...
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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.