Select Pieces, from the Practical and Devotional Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop HallGeorge Virtue, 1838 - 527 pages |
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... lights , reason and faith 2. The supply of better eyes 3. Better object of inward light 4. Ill offices done by the eyes 5. Blindness frees us from temptation 6. Cheerfulness of some blind men 7. The supply of other faculties 8. Benefit ...
... lights , reason and faith 2. The supply of better eyes 3. Better object of inward light 4. Ill offices done by the eyes 5. Blindness frees us from temptation 6. Cheerfulness of some blind men 7. The supply of other faculties 8. Benefit ...
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... Lights brought into a room 394 Lily 312 349 377 323 Loadstone and jet 325 422 Longing for heaven . 407 405 Love of life 407 Gliding star 303 to duty 384 Glow - worm 328 Lying down to rest 315 Gnats in the sun 329 Majesty of God 434 Goat ...
... Lights brought into a room 394 Lily 312 349 377 323 Loadstone and jet 325 422 Longing for heaven . 407 405 Love of life 407 Gliding star 303 to duty 384 Glow - worm 328 Lying down to rest 315 Gnats in the sun 329 Majesty of God 434 Goat ...
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... light , and shall give me beauty for bonds , and for a light and momentary affliction an eternal weight of glory . ' THE BALM OF GILEAD ; OR , THE COMFORTER . xxiv MEMOIR OF BISHOP HALL .
... light , and shall give me beauty for bonds , and for a light and momentary affliction an eternal weight of glory . ' THE BALM OF GILEAD ; OR , THE COMFORTER . xxiv MEMOIR OF BISHOP HALL .
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... light affliction which is but for a moment , worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory . ' 2 Cor . iv . 17. Blessed improvement of a few groans ; glorious issue of a short brunt of sorrow ! Why do we pass for ...
... light affliction which is but for a moment , worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory . ' 2 Cor . iv . 17. Blessed improvement of a few groans ; glorious issue of a short brunt of sorrow ! Why do we pass for ...
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... light , or heat or smoke ; but by the time she hath stirred it up a little , the bright embers show themselves , and are soon raised to a flame . Stay but till the spring , when the Sun of righteousness shall call up thy moisture into ...
... light , or heat or smoke ; but by the time she hath stirred it up a little , the bright embers show themselves , and are soon raised to a flame . Stay but till the spring , when the Sun of righteousness shall call up thy moisture into ...
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Page 40 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 471 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 203 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 143 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 246 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 192 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 189 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 460 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 205 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 205 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus ; that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.