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... Saviour : " If any man will come after me , let him deny " himself , and take up his cross , and follow me : " Which is not fo formidable an objection as it may at first sight feem . It is true , fuffering through all the progress and ...
... Saviour : " If any man will come after me , let him deny " himself , and take up his cross , and follow me : " Which is not fo formidable an objection as it may at first sight feem . It is true , fuffering through all the progress and ...
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... Saviour and his Apostles ; by those conducted by the light of nature , as by those conducted by the light of revelation . Take this to- gether with the discipline which promotes it , I mean the observation of great abstinence from ...
... Saviour and his Apostles ; by those conducted by the light of nature , as by those conducted by the light of revelation . Take this to- gether with the discipline which promotes it , I mean the observation of great abstinence from ...
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... Saviour affirmed ,, " That no man had greater love . " This is the highest point of duty , the greatest love that God requires of man , and yet he that is imperfect must have this love also in preparation of mind ; and must differ from ...
... Saviour affirmed ,, " That no man had greater love . " This is the highest point of duty , the greatest love that God requires of man , and yet he that is imperfect must have this love also in preparation of mind ; and must differ from ...
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... and death of our blessed Saviour : Read the gospels , the psalms of David , and fail not diligently to attend to the reading of holy fcriptures , when when they are most publicly and folemnly read in churches RELIGION . 65.
... and death of our blessed Saviour : Read the gospels , the psalms of David , and fail not diligently to attend to the reading of holy fcriptures , when when they are most publicly and folemnly read in churches RELIGION . 65.
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... Saviour , to diftinguish them from all other pleasures , calls them " the rest or happiness of our fouls . " The things of this world may something ease and re- fresh our bodies ; but they cannot reach the foul at all , so as to afford ...
... Saviour , to diftinguish them from all other pleasures , calls them " the rest or happiness of our fouls . " The things of this world may something ease and re- fresh our bodies ; but they cannot reach the foul at all , so as to afford ...
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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.