The Wisdom of God in the Gospel Revelaton: A Sermon, Preached at the Opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in May 1758Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1763 - 55 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 32 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
الصفحة 48 - unless we be converted, and become as little children, we cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 40 - ... and to which the bells of this old one, if possible, are to be removed, will be in the centre of the town ; but this site, though more convenient, will not, I think, be so picturesque as that of the old building, which, with the Catholic church at...
الصفحة 21 - ... to the will of Christ, and so unto the Father's will. This must needs be meant (whatever more) in the prayer of Christ, where he prayeth, " That they may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us, that they may be one, even as we are one.
الصفحة 17 - It is obvious, or least, that the clear and full manifestation, which the gospel has given of the character of God, and the laws of his moral government, and of the terms of salvation through faith in the religion of his son, are all finely calculated to root out the principles of superstition, and all false notions, destructive to the virtue and happiness of mankind, and to plant in their room whatever has a natural and direct tendency to promote our virtue, our perfection...
الصفحة 53 - ... to real humility, and which leads us to complain of the pride of other men's underftandings, when there is no other reafon for the charge, than that they cannot adopt our notions or phrafesj let us ferioufly afk ourfelves the • the following queftions.
الصفحة 45 - ... from darknefs unto light, and from the power of Sin and Satan, to the Service of the Living God...
الصفحة 15 - ... highest capacity, as the rational and accountable subjects of God, and as capable both of present and future happiness or misery, according to their behaviour. Its chief, if not its sole design, is to give us those views and impressions of our nature, of our state, of the perfections, the counsels, the laws, and the government of God, which, under the influence of providence, are the immediate and infallible means of the purity, of the comfort, and of the moral order, rectitude, and excellence...
الصفحة 15 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full...
الصفحة 32 - And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks alfo dwelling at Ephefus ; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jefus was iS magnified.