A practical exposition of the general epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude, in the form of lects |
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... desire to know the quality of anything , we bring it to a test . We doubt the quality of a metal . We prove it ; we submit it to a trial . When particular strength is needed , we use especial means by which that strength may be ...
... desire to know the quality of anything , we bring it to a test . We doubt the quality of a metal . We prove it ; we submit it to a trial . When particular strength is needed , we use especial means by which that strength may be ...
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... desire for it , nothing wavering in our conviction that it must come , and can come , from God alone . Seasons there will be when the Chris- tian's path may seem to himself so dark and per- plexing , so beset with difficulties , that ...
... desire for it , nothing wavering in our conviction that it must come , and can come , from God alone . Seasons there will be when the Chris- tian's path may seem to himself so dark and per- plexing , so beset with difficulties , that ...
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... desires . Now , if such were the case with men like David and Hezekiah , -how must it be with others who have never tasted , as they had tasted , of heavenly things , -- or how must it be with those who have been wavering between God ...
... desires . Now , if such were the case with men like David and Hezekiah , -how must it be with others who have never tasted , as they had tasted , of heavenly things , -- or how must it be with those who have been wavering between God ...
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... desire of their eyes . So doing , he has kept them to himself . The superscription , if we could read it , written on the dispensation , is , " Give ME thy heart . " 4 Without doubt , these things are painful to flesh and blood . " No ...
... desire of their eyes . So doing , he has kept them to himself . The superscription , if we could read it , written on the dispensation , is , " Give ME thy heart . " 4 Without doubt , these things are painful to flesh and blood . " No ...
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... desire of " the praise of man , " which leads him to con- sent when sinners entice him . " 66 Again the cares of a family take up the atten- tion , and engage those hours which ought to be employed in the worship of God . This is often ...
... desire of " the praise of man , " which leads him to con- sent when sinners entice him . " 66 Again the cares of a family take up the atten- tion , and engage those hours which ought to be employed in the worship of God . This is often ...
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Page 327 - Little children, it is the last time : and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists ; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Page 203 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 113 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 76 - Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Page 315 - But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 258 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 367 - Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them : because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Page 229 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 'and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 'and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. • For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 146 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according' to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in, fear...
Page 103 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.