A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy

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B.W., 1684 - Christian life - 195 pages

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Page 91 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 127 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 126 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 91 - But as he which hath called you is holy, fo be ye holy in all manner of converfation ; 16 Bscaufe it is written, Be ye holy ; for I am holy.
Page 74 - For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Page 123 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Page 170 - This is an extraordinary expression, carrying a terrible idea of the future misery of the wicked. If it had been only said the wrath of God, that would have expressed what is dreadful. If the wrath of a king be as the roaring of a lion, what is the wrath of God ? But it is not only said the wrath of God, but theßerceness and it-rath of God, or the rage of his wrath; and not only so, but the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

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