Miscellaneous Essays on Christian Morals: Experimental and Practical : Originally Delivered as Lectures in the Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, England |
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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 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 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 225 - And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
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 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 74 - I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ; 18.
Page 31 - He knows, suppose, that the quantity is not very great ; he cannot penetrate to ascertain how much, but it may be very little. He has drawn from it by means of a fountain, a good while already, and draws from it every day. But how would he feel each time of drawing and each time of thinking of it ? Not as if he had a perennial spring to go to ; not, ' I have a reservoir, I may be at ease.
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...