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Twenty-one Sermons, on a Variety of Interesting Subjects, Sentimental and Practical by Hopkins, Samuel (1721-1803)
SERMON XXI. The Author’s Farewell to the World. Psalm lxxvi. 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. THESE words have been explained in the preceding discourse, and it appears that they contain the following important truth: That God, in his infinite wisdom and goodness, has determined that there should be just so much evil,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 25: 1879 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The Lord your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto Him you shall hearken; according to all that you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more,…
Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘It came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.’—NEH. i. 4.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 27: 1881 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The principal wheat." Isaiah 28:25. THE whole passage runs on this wise—"Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground? When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,…
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Literature. I. See the Gen. Lit. on the Œcum. Creeds, § 6, p. 12, especially Hahn, Heurtley, Lumby, Swainson, and Caspari (the third vol. 1875). II. Special treatises on the Apostles' Creed: Rufinus (d.
Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
m a third Title of CHRIST. Cant. 5:16. Yea, He is altogether lovely. At the ninth verse of this chapter, you have a query propounded to the spouse, by the daughters of Jerusalem, "What is thy beloved more than another beloved?" To this question the spouse returns her answers in the following verses,…
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans and Corinthians by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.’—2 COR. v. 8. There lie in the words of my text simply these two things; the Christian view of what death is, and the Christian temper in which to anticipate it.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 13: 1867 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Serve the Lord with gladness."- Psalm 100:2. MUCH of the sweetness of music lies in the ear to which it is addressed. There are mysterious sweetnesses and unknown harmonies which lurk, and the notes are detected only by the ear attuned to melody.
Selected Sermons of George Whitefield by Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
The Heinous Sin of Profane Cursing and Swearing Matthew 5:34 — “But I say unto you, Swear not at all.” Among the many heinous sins for which this nation is grown infamous, perhaps there is no one more crying, but withal more common, than the abominable custom of profane swearing and cursing.
History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey (1830-1907)
IT was not wholly dark in American Christendom before the dawn of the Great Awakening. The censoriousness which was the besetting sin of the evangelists in that great religious movement, the rhetorical temptation to glorify the revival by intensifying the contrast with the antecedent condition,…