Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].Carlton & Porter, 1825 - Methodist Church |
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Page 2 - The children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ; it was said unto her, [unto Rebecca,] The elder shall serve the younger;"—
Page 557 - O Lord, our Governor, how excellent is thy name in all the earth; who hast set thy glory above the heavens!" It celebrates the glorious wisdom and love of God, as the Creator and Governor of all things. It is not an improbable conjecture, that David wrote this Psalm in a bright
Page 89 - Brother Paul," says St. Peter, "according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you ; as also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that arc unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
Page 685 - asking God's leave, or thinking about him any more than if there were no God in heaven or on earth ;—" I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my goods and all my fruits." My fruits! They are as much thine as the
Page 638 - repent, as if thou wert already crying for a drop of water to cool thy tongue! 3. " And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Page 592 - works whereunto ye are created in Christ Jesus." And then," leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, and not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God," go on to perfection. Yea, and when ye have attained a measure of perfect love, when God has
Page 168 - them a sign from heaven;" which they believed no false prophet was able to do. It is not improbable, they imagined, this would convince them, that he was really sent from God. " He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the
Page 399 - fear there is need to apply to some of you those terrible words of the Apostle, " Go to now, ye rich men! weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall witness against you, aud shall eat your flesh, as it were fire.
Page 807 - hast taught the hearts of thy faithful people, by sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour;