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Page 52
... resolution , and glorious patience . His providence produces strange things beyond common rules ; he who led Israel through a sea , who made a rock pour forth wa- ters , the heavens to give them bread and flesh , and whole armies to be ...
... resolution , and glorious patience . His providence produces strange things beyond common rules ; he who led Israel through a sea , who made a rock pour forth wa- ters , the heavens to give them bread and flesh , and whole armies to be ...
Page 66
... resolution , remember it , and make use of it . But if the preacher be a weak perfon , yet the text is the doctrine you are to remember , that contains all your duty . It is worth your attendance to hear that spoken often , and renewed ...
... resolution , remember it , and make use of it . But if the preacher be a weak perfon , yet the text is the doctrine you are to remember , that contains all your duty . It is worth your attendance to hear that spoken often , and renewed ...
Page 112
... resolutions , being already fixed , under all events , to one steady course of motion ; and immoveably resolved , whatever befals , ever to do what God would have it . Our will , thus per- fectly acquiefcing in God , as in its proper ...
... resolutions , being already fixed , under all events , to one steady course of motion ; and immoveably resolved , whatever befals , ever to do what God would have it . Our will , thus per- fectly acquiefcing in God , as in its proper ...
Page 144
... resolution , will grow weaker and weaker , and be every day less and lefs cumbersome , ' till it is totally extinguished ; and then we shall feel ourselves entirely restored into our own power , and be able , without check or controul ...
... resolution , will grow weaker and weaker , and be every day less and lefs cumbersome , ' till it is totally extinguished ; and then we shall feel ourselves entirely restored into our own power , and be able , without check or controul ...
Page 207
... resolution of fub- miffion to him was begotten in us ; and can we think that the father of love will ever abandon his own off- spring while it cries out to him , and with pitiful and bemoaning looks implores his aid and compassion ...
... resolution of fub- miffion to him was begotten in us ; and can we think that the father of love will ever abandon his own off- spring while it cries out to him , and with pitiful and bemoaning looks implores his aid and compassion ...
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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.