The Works of the Rev. H. Scougal: Containing the Life of God in the Soul of Man; with Nine Other Discourses on Important Subjects. To which is Added a Sermon Preached at the Author's Funeral, by George GairdenPierce and Williams, 1831 - 272 páginas |
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... noble friend of the author's , without the least design of making it more public . Others seeing it , were much taken both with the excellent purposes it contained , and the great clearness and pleasantness of the style ; the natural ...
... noble friend of the author's , without the least design of making it more public . Others seeing it , were much taken both with the excellent purposes it contained , and the great clearness and pleasantness of the style ; the natural ...
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... noble designs of his creation . Our natural affections are not wholly to be extirpated and destroyed , but only to be moderated and overruled by a superior and more excel- lent principle . In a word , the difference between a re ...
... noble designs of his creation . Our natural affections are not wholly to be extirpated and destroyed , but only to be moderated and overruled by a superior and more excel- lent principle . In a word , the difference between a re ...
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... noble and well - placed affection , doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves . The images of these do frequently present themselves unto the mind , and , by a secret force and energy ...
... noble and well - placed affection , doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves . The images of these do frequently present themselves unto the mind , and , by a secret force and energy ...
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... noble pretensions . Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of ; and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily . It is indeed the only thing we can call our own . Other things may be taken from us ...
... noble pretensions . Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of ; and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily . It is indeed the only thing we can call our own . Other things may be taken from us ...
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... noble than all the empires in the world . The advantages of divine love . Again , as divine love doth advance and elevate the soul , so it is that alone which can make it happy . The highest and most ravishing pleasures , the most solid ...
... noble than all the empires in the world . The advantages of divine love . Again , as divine love doth advance and elevate the soul , so it is that alone which can make it happy . The highest and most ravishing pleasures , the most solid ...
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Página 217 - ... looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority, let no man despise thee.
Página 154 - How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with Thee.
Página 156 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Página 195 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Página 120 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Página 215 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Página 152 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Página 153 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 153 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Página 86 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that It is for his life.