Memoirs of ... Jonathan Edwards, with emendations by J. HawksleyJames Black, 1815 - 266 páginas |
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Página 45
... called a vicious life , betake themselves to a little superficial study of divinity , and soon begin to prcach ; while all the ex- ternal seriousness and zeal they assume , is only from worldly motives ; they being without any inward ...
... called a vicious life , betake themselves to a little superficial study of divinity , and soon begin to prcach ; while all the ex- ternal seriousness and zeal they assume , is only from worldly motives ; they being without any inward ...
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... called no man Father . He thought and judged for himself , and was truly very much of an original . Reading was not the only method he took to im- prove his mind ; he was much given to writing , without which , probably , no stu- dent ...
... called no man Father . He thought and judged for himself , and was truly very much of an original . Reading was not the only method he took to im- prove his mind ; he was much given to writing , without which , probably , no stu- dent ...
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... called an affable , face- tious gentleman , in all companies . They who have a great flow of animal spirits , and so can speak with more ease and less expence than others , may doubtless law- fully practise free conversation in all com ...
... called an affable , face- tious gentleman , in all companies . They who have a great flow of animal spirits , and so can speak with more ease and less expence than others , may doubtless law- fully practise free conversation in all com ...
Página 90
... he ordered his family to finish all their secular business by that time , or before ; when all were called together , a psalm was sung , and prayer offered , as an introduction to the sanctifica- tion of 090 THE LIFE OF.
... he ordered his family to finish all their secular business by that time , or before ; when all were called together , a psalm was sung , and prayer offered , as an introduction to the sanctifica- tion of 090 THE LIFE OF.
Página 92
... feared to rely on his veracity . He was cautious in choosing his intimate friends , and therefore had not many that might properly be called such ; but to them manner . he shewed himself friendly in a peculiar He 92 THE LIFE OF.
... feared to rely on his veracity . He was cautious in choosing his intimate friends , and therefore had not many that might properly be called such ; but to them manner . he shewed himself friendly in a peculiar He 92 THE LIFE OF.
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Página 116 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Página 63 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: Even so Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight.
Página 135 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Página 26 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Página 106 - And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness : and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought Us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Página 43 - From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life, and rejecting whom He pleased, leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Página 156 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Página 65 - ... horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view, that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and svve.et grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Página 47 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Página 54 - There was no part of creature holiness that I had so great a sense of its loveliness as humility, brokenness of heart and poverty of spirit; and there was nothing that I so earnestly longed for. My heart panted after this, to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be ALL, that I might become as a little child.