The Methodist Pulpit, SouthWilliam T. Smithson W.T. Smithson, for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal church South,in the city of Washington, 1859 - 440 pages |
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... the flourishing Church in Lynchburg , Virginia , he pursued the even tenor of his duties with a liberal , consistent , and working devotion to all her interests ; but then he was at liberty to indulge the modest , 6 PREFACE .
... the flourishing Church in Lynchburg , Virginia , he pursued the even tenor of his duties with a liberal , consistent , and working devotion to all her interests ; but then he was at liberty to indulge the modest , 6 PREFACE .
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... duty and happiness of time , the destiny of eternity . The text presents a contrast between earthly treasures and heav- enly ; it presses an earnest warning against the seductions of the one , and an equally earnest direction to secure ...
... duty and happiness of time , the destiny of eternity . The text presents a contrast between earthly treasures and heav- enly ; it presses an earnest warning against the seductions of the one , and an equally earnest direction to secure ...
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... duty to God in this wretched servitude , and glory in the gilded badges of our slavery . Obviously , " no man can serve God and Mammon . " Furthermore , the spirit of the precept here delivered by our Lord implies that the acquisition ...
... duty to God in this wretched servitude , and glory in the gilded badges of our slavery . Obviously , " no man can serve God and Mammon . " Furthermore , the spirit of the precept here delivered by our Lord implies that the acquisition ...
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... duty , or selfish views of benevolence . The standard is erected ; the method is pre- scribed -- it is " the will of God . " The work is neither self - chosen nor self - regulated ; it is subject to the Divine appointment and the Divine ...
... duty , or selfish views of benevolence . The standard is erected ; the method is pre- scribed -- it is " the will of God . " The work is neither self - chosen nor self - regulated ; it is subject to the Divine appointment and the Divine ...
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... duties , both conditional and personal ; and upon the faithful discharge of those duties , ordi- narily , depends all the hoped - for benefits to be enjoyed . Among the first of those duties is to be recognised , the obligation to make ...
... duties , both conditional and personal ; and upon the faithful discharge of those duties , ordi- narily , depends all the hoped - for benefits to be enjoyed . Among the first of those duties is to be recognised , the obligation to make ...
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Page 59 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 58 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 105 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 360 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me ; I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Page 102 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge ; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness ; And to godliness brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 151 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 333 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Page 193 - ROMANS p)AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of .God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 271 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate...
Page 360 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.