The Christian Ministry: With an Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Inefficiency, and with an Especial Reference to the Ministry of the Establishment |
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... application upon the Christian Ministry . Too often has the neglect of serious and prayerful calculation given awful power to the tempt- ation to draw back from so momentous a work . No previous contemplation can indeed give any just ...
... application upon the Christian Ministry . Too often has the neglect of serious and prayerful calculation given awful power to the tempt- ation to draw back from so momentous a work . No previous contemplation can indeed give any just ...
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... application , diligence of labour , " discerning of spirit , " 2 how large a portion of " the meekness and gentleness of Christ , " of his yearning compassion , and persevering self - devotedness , is here required ! Except we realize a ...
... application , diligence of labour , " discerning of spirit , " 2 how large a portion of " the meekness and gentleness of Christ , " of his yearning compassion , and persevering self - devotedness , is here required ! Except we realize a ...
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... application to ourselves , lest we should gradually lose our relish for our work , excuse ourselves from its self - denying exercises , and sink into heartless despondency . A course of opposition also to our message may stir up a ...
... application to ourselves , lest we should gradually lose our relish for our work , excuse ourselves from its self - denying exercises , and sink into heartless despondency . A course of opposition also to our message may stir up a ...
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... application may make him a scholar , a philosopher , or an orator ; but a true Minis- ter must have certain principles , motives , feelings , and aims , which no industry or endeavours of men can either acquire or communicate . They ...
... application may make him a scholar , a philosopher , or an orator ; but a true Minis- ter must have certain principles , motives , feelings , and aims , which no industry or endeavours of men can either acquire or communicate . They ...
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... application of Scripture . His furniture for his work must therefore include a store of knowledge far beyond a bare sufficiency for personal salvation . " The priest's lips should keep knowledge , and they should seek the law at his ...
... application of Scripture . His furniture for his work must therefore include a store of knowledge far beyond a bare sufficiency for personal salvation . " The priest's lips should keep knowledge , and they should seek the law at his ...
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Page 139 - Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Page 64 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 221 - Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may. eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Page 245 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach JESUS CHRIST.
Page 659 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 324 - As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him : rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Page 485 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Page 349 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 16 - Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 100 - As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou earnest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.