| Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...kept their strong purposes and promises of amendment then made ? Or arc they, on the other hand, « like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." We have a very sad proof of the ingratitude and insensibility of mankind to God's blessings, in the... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 298 pages
...against the power of every temptation, and a cleaving dependence upon him through whom alone you will be more than conquerors. Above all, forget not, that...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." p d APPENDIX. t ! L The writer of these Discourses has dra up the following compilation of passages... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 290 pages
...first-fruits of his creatures. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful... | |
| Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 pages
...The Epistle. James i. 22. BE ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer,...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful... | |
| Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1817 - 444 pages
...the Apostle himself in the words following my text. " If any man be a hearer of the word, and iiot a doer, he is like unto a man, beholding his natural...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was:" he forgets the spots and stains which he saw upon his face^ and so neglects to remove them. " But whoso... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 292 pages
...first-fruits of his creatures. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,...natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and goelh his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect... | |
| 1817 - 842 pages
...doer, lu- is like unto a man beholding lus • natural face in a glass ; 24 For IIP beholdeth Iiimself. and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketb into thé perfect law of liberty, and coutinueth therein, he being not a forgetful... | |
| 1818 - 594 pages
...nature's powerlessness, and nature's condemnation —and that the foundation is not laid, the mighty und essential change is not accomplished, the transition...man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he bcholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straitway fuigeiteth what manner of imui he was." Of Dr.... | |
| 1818 - 538 pages
...the suviug faith и not formed, nor the passage taken from darkness to the marvellous light of '-lie Gospel, till you are both hearers of the word and...doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural wee in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and btraitway furgetteth what manner of... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...DiTine complacency. « For if any man be an hear« er of the word, and not a doer, he is like nnto « a man beholding his natural face in a glass : « for...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he « was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of * liberty, and continneth therein, he being not ' a forgetful... | |
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