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... wicked to be capable of any . Be this as it will , certain it is , that the fear of death arifes from nature , and is common to all ; but admits of no cure , but from the comforts and confolations which religion admi- nifters . But to ...
... wicked to be capable of any . Be this as it will , certain it is , that the fear of death arifes from nature , and is common to all ; but admits of no cure , but from the comforts and confolations which religion admi- nifters . But to ...
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... wicked in great prosperity , and haftily concludes , that there is no God , or that he regards none of these things : a conclufion which either fills our hearts with all the pains of defponding melancholy , feeing ourselves furround- ed ...
... wicked in great prosperity , and haftily concludes , that there is no God , or that he regards none of these things : a conclufion which either fills our hearts with all the pains of defponding melancholy , feeing ourselves furround- ed ...
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... wicked profper , we know there is a day of account ; if the righteous fuffer , we know his reward is not far off : if all things about us feem disturbed , we know whose word can bring order out of confufion : whatever our state and ...
... wicked profper , we know there is a day of account ; if the righteous fuffer , we know his reward is not far off : if all things about us feem disturbed , we know whose word can bring order out of confufion : whatever our state and ...
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... wicked ; to deny ourselves and the world for the fake of God , and yet to fuffer under the foreft evils , which can befal even the wicked in this life , the torments of a diftracted mind ! But bad as this cafe is , it is not always the ...
... wicked ; to deny ourselves and the world for the fake of God , and yet to fuffer under the foreft evils , which can befal even the wicked in this life , the torments of a diftracted mind ! But bad as this cafe is , it is not always the ...
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... wicked defpe- rate , or the righteous in defpair . Were these ter- rors the natural effects of that fear of God which is the foundation of all true religion , religion itself would be distraction , and not the reasonable service of a ...
... wicked defpe- rate , or the righteous in defpair . Were these ter- rors the natural effects of that fear of God which is the foundation of all true religion , religion itself would be distraction , and not the reasonable service of a ...
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Popular passages
Page 49 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 376 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 358 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 455 - ... that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead...
Page 359 - Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Page 175 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 49 - There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 288 - What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Page 455 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 420 - ... who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high ; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.