Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 2Robert Carter and Bros., 1859 - Christian literature, English |
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... with God ; fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of holiness , as it is designed by Christ for the end , issue , and effect of His death , -and thou wilt , in TAKE WARNING FROM THE FALLEN . 29 an ordinary course 28 JOHN OWEN .
... with God ; fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of holiness , as it is designed by Christ for the end , issue , and effect of His death , -and thou wilt , in TAKE WARNING FROM THE FALLEN . 29 an ordinary course 28 JOHN OWEN .
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... wilt do , that when thou art entangled , God may withal bring some heavy affliction or judg- ment upon thee , which , by reason of thy entanglement , thou shalt not be able to look on any otherwise than as an evidence of His anger and ...
... wilt do , that when thou art entangled , God may withal bring some heavy affliction or judg- ment upon thee , which , by reason of thy entanglement , thou shalt not be able to look on any otherwise than as an evidence of His anger and ...
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... Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven , or have thy sins and go to hell ? " " His arm was ar- rested , and looking up to heaven , it seemed as if the Lord Jesus was looking down upon him in remonstrance and severe displeasure ; and ...
... Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven , or have thy sins and go to hell ? " " His arm was ar- rested , and looking up to heaven , it seemed as if the Lord Jesus was looking down upon him in remonstrance and severe displeasure ; and ...
Page 97
... wilt and canst ? or him , by believing Thou neither wilt nor canst ? Lord , I would fain honour Thee by believing Thou canst and Thou willest . " And whilst he was thus speaking , 66 as if some one had clapped him on the back , " that ...
... wilt and canst ? or him , by believing Thou neither wilt nor canst ? Lord , I would fain honour Thee by believing Thou canst and Thou willest . " And whilst he was thus speaking , 66 as if some one had clapped him on the back , " that ...
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... wilt object , That thyself hast a thousand times preferred a stinking lust before Him : I answer , Be it so ; it is but what is common to men to do ; nor doth the Lord Jesus make such a foolish life a bar to thee , to forbid thy coming ...
... wilt object , That thyself hast a thousand times preferred a stinking lust before Him : I answer , Be it so ; it is but what is common to men to do ; nor doth the Lord Jesus make such a foolish life a bar to thee , to forbid thy coming ...
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Page 64 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 143 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Page 64 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 250 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 54 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 56 - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 51 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 162 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Page 59 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 167 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.