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... confider.ce , fo to impose on this age what is so universally contradic- tory to all former , and to the common verdict of man- kind ! For it is observable thro ' all the successions of men , that there was never any society , any ...
... confider.ce , fo to impose on this age what is so universally contradic- tory to all former , and to the common verdict of man- kind ! For it is observable thro ' all the successions of men , that there was never any society , any ...
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... confider , and really esteem this truth , that God is the great eye of the world , always watching over our actions , and hath an ever - open ear to hear all our words , and an un- wearied arm ever lifted up to crush a finner into ruin ...
... confider , and really esteem this truth , that God is the great eye of the world , always watching over our actions , and hath an ever - open ear to hear all our words , and an un- wearied arm ever lifted up to crush a finner into ruin ...
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... confider the means and inftruments to obtain faith . The first is an humble , willing and docible mind , a defire to be instructed in the way of God ; for perfuafion enters like a fun - beam gently , and without violence ; open but the ...
... confider the means and inftruments to obtain faith . The first is an humble , willing and docible mind , a defire to be instructed in the way of God ; for perfuafion enters like a fun - beam gently , and without violence ; open but the ...
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... confider how much Christ suffered to redeem us from fin and its eternal punishment . He who confiders this , must needs believe , that the defires which God had to save us , were not less than infinite , and therefore not easily to be ...
... confider how much Christ suffered to redeem us from fin and its eternal punishment . He who confiders this , must needs believe , that the defires which God had to save us , were not less than infinite , and therefore not easily to be ...
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... Confider , that though God knows all the events of men , and what their final condition shall be , who shall be saved , and who shall perish ; yet he treats them as his own , calls them to be his own , offers fair conditions as to his ...
... Confider , that though God knows all the events of men , and what their final condition shall be , who shall be saved , and who shall perish ; yet he treats them as his own , calls them to be his own , offers fair conditions as to his ...
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actions alſo becauſe beſt bleſſed body buſineſs cauſe Chrift Chriſtian chuſe confcience confider confideration confifts conſent converſation courſe defire delight deſign diſcourſe diſpoſe divine duty eaſe elſe eſpecially eſteem eternal evil exerciſe fafting faid faith falſe fame faſt fear firſt fleſh folemn fome forrow foul fuch fuffer fure glory God's grace happy heart heaven heavenly Holy Ghost hope increaſe infinite inſtances inſtrument intereſt itſelf Jeſus juſt laſt leſs live lufts luſt meaſure mind moſt muſt nature neceſſary neceſſity neſs obedience obliged obſerved ourſelves paſſions perfect perſons pleaſed pleaſures poſſible praiſe pray prayer preſent promiſes purpoſe raiſe reaſon religion repentance reſolution reſpect reſt ſame Saviour ſays ſecure ſenſe ſenſible ſenſual ſerve ſervice ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhew ſhort ſhould ſin ſociety ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſubject ſuch temper temptation theſe things thoſe thoughts tion uſe virtue whoſe word zeal
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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.