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... death , all that eternity has lost , for which we were brought into being . Now there is no misery in this world , nothing that makes either the life or death of man to be full of calamity , but this blindness and insensibility of his ...
... death , all that eternity has lost , for which we were brought into being . Now there is no misery in this world , nothing that makes either the life or death of man to be full of calamity , but this blindness and insensibility of his ...
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... death to the kingdom of heaven ; and therefore , all its workings , appetites , and desires , are to be restrained and kept under , that the first heavenly life , to which Adam died , may 9 of the spirit, because Adam's first heavenly ...
... death to the kingdom of heaven ; and therefore , all its workings , appetites , and desires , are to be restrained and kept under , that the first heavenly life , to which Adam died , may 9 of the spirit, because Adam's first heavenly ...
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... death in the dust of the earth , as the poor beasts , whom thou wilt thus have made to be thy brethren . " This paraphrase I leave to the reflection of the reader ; and proceed to shew , Thirdly , That the misery , distress and woful ...
... death in the dust of the earth , as the poor beasts , whom thou wilt thus have made to be thy brethren . " This paraphrase I leave to the reflection of the reader ; and proceed to shew , Thirdly , That the misery , distress and woful ...
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... death . Which is in other words only saying , that he found it to be an extinction of that divine , angelical nature , which till then , had kept him insensible , and incapable of any hurtful impressions , from any or all the powers of ...
... death . Which is in other words only saying , that he found it to be an extinction of that divine , angelical nature , which till then , had kept him insensible , and incapable of any hurtful impressions , from any or all the powers of ...
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... that this is the case here , may in part be seen by the following instance . Let it be supposed , that an human body had lost the light , and air of this world , and was J in a state of death , because both these were 32.
... that this is the case here , may in part be seen by the following instance . Let it be supposed , that an human body had lost the light , and air of this world , and was J in a state of death , because both these were 32.
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Page 251 - And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Page 252 - the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, with all thy Soul, with ' all thy Mind, and with all thy Strength ; and thy Neighbour
Page 175 - If any man hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother hath need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion to him, how dwelleth the love of God in him...
Page 72 - Except a man hateth his father and mother, yea, and his own life, he cannot be My disciple, it is because our best tempers are yet carnal and full of the imperfections of our fallen nature. The doctrine is just and good ; not as if father and mother were to be hated ; but that love which an unregenerate person, or natural man...
Page 51 - Him abroad with thine outward eyes; thou seekest for Him in books, in controversies, in the church, and outward exercises, but there thou wilt not find Him till thou hast first found Him in thy heart. Seek for Him in thy heart, and thou wilt never seek in vain; for there He dwelleth, there is the seat of His Light and Holy Spirit.
Page 103 - Life, pretending to do wonders under extraordinary calls from God ? It is this : they have turned to God without turning from themselves ; would be alive in God before they were dead to their own nature ; a thing as impossible in itself as for a grain of wheat to be alive before it dies.
Page 83 - There is but one salvation for all mankind, and that is the life of God in the soul. God has but one design or intent towards all mankind, and that is to introduce or generate his own life, light and spirit in them, that all may be as so many images, temples, and habitations of the holy trinity.
Page 12 - First, It is plain that the Sin and Fall of Adam did not consist in this, vit., that he had only committed a single Act of Disobedience, and so might have been just as He was before, if God had pleased to overlook this single Act of Disobedience, and not to have brought a Curse upon him and his Posterity for it. — Nothing of this is the Truth of the Matter, either on the Part of GOD, or on the Part of Man. "Secondly, It is plain also that the Command of GOD, not to lust after, and eat of the forbidden...
Page 64 - Christ are not merely remembered but inwardly found and enjoyed as the real states of thy soul, which has followed Christ in the regeneration. When once thou art well grounded in this inward worship, thou wilt have learnt to live unto God above time and place. For every day will be Sunday to thee, and wherever thou goest, thou wilt have a priest, a church, and an altar along with thee.
Page 202 - If the Spirit of him, who raised Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he also shall quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit, which dwelleth in you.'* In vain therefore is life expected, either for body or soul, but by the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.