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... Chrift , the main scope and defign of all divine revelation has been the gradual discovery of this great mystery of the mediation . Thus revealed religion was , for the matter of it , always the fame , though it was not always B 3 ...
... Chrift , the main scope and defign of all divine revelation has been the gradual discovery of this great mystery of the mediation . Thus revealed religion was , for the matter of it , always the fame , though it was not always B 3 ...
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... us to render all these acts of worship to God , in and through Jesus Chrift , to our performing this , it is necessary we should believe in his mediation . B. 4 These These reflexions , as little as they seem to be RELIGION . 7.
... us to render all these acts of worship to God , in and through Jesus Chrift , to our performing this , it is necessary we should believe in his mediation . B. 4 These These reflexions , as little as they seem to be RELIGION . 7.
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... Chrift , we are of all men most miferable . " It is confefsedly , indisputably true , that had these Chriftians been deftitute of that hope which was their fupport , they had funk under the weight of fuch sufferings , and fo had been ...
... Chrift , we are of all men most miferable . " It is confefsedly , indisputably true , that had these Chriftians been deftitute of that hope which was their fupport , they had funk under the weight of fuch sufferings , and fo had been ...
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... Chrift in heart and defire , to become disciples of his doctrine by choice befides conviction , being in the prefence of God but as idiots , without any principles of our own to hinder the truth of God , but fucking in greedily all that ...
... Chrift in heart and defire , to become disciples of his doctrine by choice befides conviction , being in the prefence of God but as idiots , without any principles of our own to hinder the truth of God , but fucking in greedily all that ...
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... Chrift , openly owning whatsoever he has revealed and com- manded ; not being ashamed of the word of God , or of any practices injoined by it ; and this without complying with any man's interest , not regarding favour , nor be- ing ...
... Chrift , openly owning whatsoever he has revealed and com- manded ; not being ashamed of the word of God , or of any practices injoined by it ; and this without complying with any man's interest , not regarding favour , nor be- ing ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.