Miscellaneous Essays on Christian Morals: Experimental and Practical : Originally Delivered as Lectures in the Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, England |
Other editions - View all
Miscellaneous Essays on Christian Morals: Experimental and Practical ... John Foster No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
37 cents 50 cents absolutely admonition Almighty apprehension awful beauty cause cern character Christ Christian circumstance conscience consider contemplation delightful divine law dreadful duty earnest earth effect ence eternity evil exercise fact fading faith favour fear feeling GILBERT BURNET gloomy grand habitual happy Harriet Martineau heart heaven holiness human ideas idolatry imagine important indulge infinite instances interest JOHN ANGELL JAMES judgment kind knowledge less living look Lord manner Mary Howitt matter ment mercy mighty mind modes moral nature objects observe passions perfect perhaps plagues of Egypt practical prayer present principle Redeemer reflection religion scene season seen sense sensible sober-mindedness Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah solemn soul spirit spring season suppose temptation things thoughts tical tion trifling true truth vale of Siddim vanity volume whole winter wisdom young persons youth Zarephath
Popular passages
Page 195 - Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 185 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? 17 They zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Page 195 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 73 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 127 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Page 136 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 216 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Page 206 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...