Sermons ...: With a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volumen 3Sharpe & Son, Edwards & Company, [and others], 1820 |
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Página 37
... period of it he is now arrived and to what proportion of it he can with any probability look forward , as yet to come ; he can hardly avoid feeling some secret compunction , and reflecting seriously upon his state . Happy if that ...
... period of it he is now arrived and to what proportion of it he can with any probability look forward , as yet to come ; he can hardly avoid feeling some secret compunction , and reflecting seriously upon his state . Happy if that ...
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... period of coolness , which the lapse of time will , of itself , certainly bring.— When we look back on years that are past , how swiftly do they appear to have fleeted away ! How insensibly has one period of life stolen upon us after ...
... period of coolness , which the lapse of time will , of itself , certainly bring.— When we look back on years that are past , how swiftly do they appear to have fleeted away ! How insensibly has one period of life stolen upon us after ...
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... period of in which we are at present placed . Here lies the immediate and principal object of our concern : For , the recollection of the past is only so far of moment as it acts upon the present . The past , to us now , is little ; the ...
... period of in which we are at present placed . Here lies the immediate and principal object of our concern : For , the recollection of the past is only so far of moment as it acts upon the present . The past , to us now , is little ; the ...
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... period of their lives . This propensity to look forward was , for wise pur- poses , implanted in the human breast . It serves to give proper occupation to the active powers of the mind , and to quicken all its exertions . But it is too ...
... period of their lives . This propensity to look forward was , for wise pur- poses , implanted in the human breast . It serves to give proper occupation to the active powers of the mind , and to quicken all its exertions . But it is too ...
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... periods , will continue to be what it has heretofore been ; that it will be a mixed and varied state ; a chequered scene of pleasures and pains , of fugitive joys and transient griefs , succeeding in a round to one another . Whether we ...
... periods , will continue to be what it has heretofore been ; that it will be a mixed and varied state ; a chequered scene of pleasures and pains , of fugitive joys and transient griefs , succeeding in a round to one another . Whether we ...
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Página 46 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Página 115 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Página 324 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Página 151 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 77 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 201 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 18 - And being but one. she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God , and prophets, For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
Página 183 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 111 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Página 152 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.