Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential Dispensations, as Means of Moral Discipline to the ChristianR.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1838 - 191 páginas |
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... present state , the pledge and foretaste of everlasting blessedness . This stedfast pursuit of improvement includes in its very essence the intention of rendering glory to God ; and the one cannot be really desired without the other ...
... present state , the pledge and foretaste of everlasting blessedness . This stedfast pursuit of improvement includes in its very essence the intention of rendering glory to God ; and the one cannot be really desired without the other ...
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... presents more faces than a multiplying - glass , and each of them is unlike the rest . Pride , thinking of itself more highly than it ought to think ; vanity , seeking the praise of men more than the praise of God ; envy detract- ing ...
... presents more faces than a multiplying - glass , and each of them is unlike the rest . Pride , thinking of itself more highly than it ought to think ; vanity , seeking the praise of men more than the praise of God ; envy detract- ing ...
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... present grace , new pledges of future glory . Whether the individual's characteristic tendency be sensitive or intellectual , imaginative or reflec- tive , lively or torpid , the Gospel teaches every one who receives it , to think , and ...
... present grace , new pledges of future glory . Whether the individual's characteristic tendency be sensitive or intellectual , imaginative or reflec- tive , lively or torpid , the Gospel teaches every one who receives it , to think , and ...
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... present edification . Sometimes under the smart of affliction we may verbally confess ; but do not really feel that God is merciful . Retrospection never fails to bring to our hearts a lively conviction of this truth . It is written ...
... present edification . Sometimes under the smart of affliction we may verbally confess ; but do not really feel that God is merciful . Retrospection never fails to bring to our hearts a lively conviction of this truth . It is written ...
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... present condition of all nations , will lead us to be thankful for having been born in the nineteenth century , and in Britain . For this is an age , in which , though dense and murky clouds hang full of portentous horror over our ...
... present condition of all nations , will lead us to be thankful for having been born in the nineteenth century , and in Britain . For this is an age , in which , though dense and murky clouds hang full of portentous horror over our ...
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Página 163 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Página 86 - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Página 114 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Página 57 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Página 112 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Página 152 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Página 117 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Página 153 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 163 - Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary f There is no searching of his understanding.
Página 87 - All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.