The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote ...J. Chalmers, 1751 - 448 páginas |
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Benjamin Whichcote. and immodesty that many finners arrive unto . For our better fecurity , let us confider , 1. That it is much easier to prevent , than to re- ftrain fin , and to recover a man's felf . ' Tis easier : a great deal , not ...
Benjamin Whichcote. and immodesty that many finners arrive unto . For our better fecurity , let us confider , 1. That it is much easier to prevent , than to re- ftrain fin , and to recover a man's felf . ' Tis easier : a great deal , not ...
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... better that God fhould not anfwer us in what we pray for . You fee upon reading these words , a man would not imagine the case as we find it . For here we have a person of eminent priviledge ; Jonah , who lived before other of the ...
... better that God fhould not anfwer us in what we pray for . You fee upon reading these words , a man would not imagine the case as we find it . For here we have a person of eminent priviledge ; Jonah , who lived before other of the ...
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... better than life itself . Now Jonah is offended with God himself . 2. The cause of his offence . He is offended with God's goodness , he is offended with finners repen- tance ; he is offended that repentance doth take ef- fect . Was ...
... better than life itself . Now Jonah is offended with God himself . 2. The cause of his offence . He is offended with God's goodness , he is offended with finners repen- tance ; he is offended that repentance doth take ef- fect . Was ...
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... better a mischief should fall on parti- cular persons , than that a general inconvenience fhould follow . 4. God fometimes lets us feel fomething of hell , here , to prevent it hereafter . Chastisements are exer- cifes of virtue not ...
... better a mischief should fall on parti- cular persons , than that a general inconvenience fhould follow . 4. God fometimes lets us feel fomething of hell , here , to prevent it hereafter . Chastisements are exer- cifes of virtue not ...
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... weakly done , but well meant ; or by free pardon . God is far better than we can conceive of him . For 1ft , He is infinite in all his perfections ; VOL . I , C and and we are but finite in all our apprehenfions , MERCY of God . 33.
... weakly done , but well meant ; or by free pardon . God is far better than we can conceive of him . For 1ft , He is infinite in all his perfections ; VOL . I , C and and we are but finite in all our apprehenfions , MERCY of God . 33.
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Página 269 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 275 - God ; who will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Página 179 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Página 4 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Página 271 - ... as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again; so that a man cannot know where it went through...
Página 25 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Página 119 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning ; and rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God ; for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil.
Página 240 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 282 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Página 361 - ... to be throughout rational in what they do ; for these things have a Divine foundation. The spirit in man is the Candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting men to God.