The Christian Treasury, Volume 1John Johnstone, 1846 - Protestantism |
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... truth . This false peace , where it does not spring from utter thought- lessness , and is professedly ascribed to any assignable reason , may be traced to three dis- tinct , but connected sources ; first , To a spirit of atheistical ...
... truth . This false peace , where it does not spring from utter thought- lessness , and is professedly ascribed to any assignable reason , may be traced to three dis- tinct , but connected sources ; first , To a spirit of atheistical ...
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... truth . The one is peace in believing " ( Rom . xv . 13 ) , the other is peace in NOT believing . In the former case , the believer surveys the whole range of re- vealed truth ; and , while he finds many mys- teries there - many depths ...
... truth . The one is peace in believing " ( Rom . xv . 13 ) , the other is peace in NOT believing . In the former case , the believer surveys the whole range of re- vealed truth ; and , while he finds many mys- teries there - many depths ...
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... truth , " says Peter , " I perceive this . " The meaning is , I am strongly and infallibly led to this conclusion by all that I have now seen and heard . This is what I distinctly gather from the information of Cornelius , and from the ...
... truth , " says Peter , " I perceive this . " The meaning is , I am strongly and infallibly led to this conclusion by all that I have now seen and heard . This is what I distinctly gather from the information of Cornelius , and from the ...
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... truth , it continues to be regarded rather as a trophy wrested from the enemy , than as a treasury of valuable practical lessons . We know of few passages , however , which , when rightly understood , are more profitable for reproof and ...
... truth , it continues to be regarded rather as a trophy wrested from the enemy , than as a treasury of valuable practical lessons . We know of few passages , however , which , when rightly understood , are more profitable for reproof and ...
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... truth . For HIM to be satisfied with mere external services would be obviously incongruity . That the preceptive part of the law of God is good , calculated to produce happiness , may be very easily made plain to the mind of every ...
... truth . For HIM to be satisfied with mere external services would be obviously incongruity . That the preceptive part of the law of God is good , calculated to produce happiness , may be very easily made plain to the mind of every ...
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Page 138 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the com, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 33 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even forever.
Page 288 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 138 - The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.
Page 301 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands ; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 402 - And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire : and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth ; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Page 138 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 15 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page 114 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 301 - The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.