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The poverty , however , to which the text relates is a poverty which I desire to cultivate in my own heart , and it is one upon which our divine Lord has pronounced a blessing . When he sat down upon the mountain and poured forth his ...
The poverty , however , to which the text relates is a poverty which I desire to cultivate in my own heart , and it is one upon which our divine Lord has pronounced a blessing . When he sat down upon the mountain and poured forth his ...
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Come now , and rest upon God's appointed Saviour , the Son of God , even though you may not have felt as you could desire your own poverty and need . If you mourn that you do not mourn as you should , you are one of the poor and needy ...
Come now , and rest upon God's appointed Saviour , the Son of God , even though you may not have felt as you could desire your own poverty and need . If you mourn that you do not mourn as you should , you are one of the poor and needy ...
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Stonber's first desire , therefore , was to create a better supply of schoolmasters . The bare idea of this , was bitterly resented ; the more respectable of the inhabitants declaring against allowing their sons to enter so disrepntable ...
Stonber's first desire , therefore , was to create a better supply of schoolmasters . The bare idea of this , was bitterly resented ; the more respectable of the inhabitants declaring against allowing their sons to enter so disrepntable ...
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... they deny to spring from any holy intention , but , judging from their own case , they attribute them to selfish and worldly motives ; not to any pure desire to please God , but to a wish to stand well with men .
... they deny to spring from any holy intention , but , judging from their own case , they attribute them to selfish and worldly motives ; not to any pure desire to please God , but to a wish to stand well with men .
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He will attend so carefully that he will understand us , and he will often fulfil desires which we ourselves could not have expressed in intelligible words . " Groanings that cannot be uttered , " are often prayers which cannot be ...
He will attend so carefully that he will understand us , and he will often fulfil desires which we ourselves could not have expressed in intelligible words . " Groanings that cannot be uttered , " are often prayers which cannot be ...
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Page 69 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Page 246 - Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah : for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Page 32 - 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.
Page 564 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 462 - Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. "Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Page 200 - Who shall ascend into heaven ? (that is, to bring Christ down from above ;) or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 374 - For thou, O God, hast heard my vows : thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
Page 371 - HEAR my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Page 426 - Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Page 436 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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| Title | The Sword and the trowel; ed. by C.H. Spurgeon |
| Author | London metrop. tabernacle |
| Editor | Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| Published | 1871 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Oct 2006 |
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