 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 600 pages
...spiritual life; but in itself it is not absolutely "living," it hath not life in itself, as Christ has. "In him is life, and the life is the light of men," John i, 4, and this one property of — "him with whom we have to do" — contains the two great motives... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 596 pages
...spiritual life; but in itself it is not absolutely "living," it hath not life in itself, as Christ has. "In him is life, and the life is the light of men," John i, 4, and this one property of— "him with whom we have to do" — contains the two great motives... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 184 pages
...Christian, has received the Spirit that searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God himself?—on what grounds could the Apostle denounce even the sincerest...light of men ? In the present day we hear much, and tyom men of various creeds, of the plainness and simplicity of the Christian religion: and a strange... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 650 pages
...unto Christ. (1.) No truth whatever brings any spiritual light unto the mind, but by virtue thereof. ' In him is life, and the life is the light of men ;' John i. 4. He is the ' true light which •lighteth every man that cometh into the world;' ver.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1832 - 244 pages
...energy and to manly energy knowledge!" Is it not especially significant, that in the divine O3conomy, as revealed to us in the New Testament, the peculiar...plainness and simplicity of the Christian religion : and strange abuse has been made of these words, often indeed with no ill intention, but still oftener by... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pages
...children in understanding : howbeit, in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. ligential wisdom which from all eternity is with God, and is...and a strange abuse has been made of these words, ofien indeed with no ill intention, hut still oftener by men who would fain transform the necessity... | |
 | John Owen - Trinity - 1839 - 616 pages
...unto Christ. (1.) No truth whatever brings any spiritual light unto the mind but by virtue thereof. ' In him is life, and the life is the light of men,' John i. 4. ' He is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' verse 9. Wherefore,... | |
 | Richard De Charms - New Jerusalem Church - 1840 - 722 pages
...practise his precepts, we are in the principle which proceeds from him, and this is the truth : because " in him is life, and the life is the light of men" — he is " the way, the truth, and the life" — and the words he " speaks unto us are spirit and... | |
 | John East - Meditations - 1841 - 266 pages
...iv. 6. j: Ps. xxvu. I. t Eccles. xi. 7. $ Prov. xv. 30. tion ; * to accept him, is life itself. For " in him is life ; and the life is the light of men." t O my Saviour, thou art " the true light ; " f and, having thee with me, like Israel of old, 1 shall... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1841 - 126 pages
...harmonising, giving a sort of naturalness to impossibility itself ! Well might the Evangelist say, ' In him is life, and the life is the light of men.' Whatever we make of the four gospels, this is our one Gospel ; true, eternally true, plenarily inspired,... | |
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In the present day we hear much, and from men of various creeds, of the plainness and simplicity of the Christian religion : and... 
