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Page 278
If you suppose yourself in an unregenerate state , be found most earnestly
diligent in the duties of religion , in the use of the means of grace , and in
endeavours of a conformity of life to the will of God , as the way in which God will
be inquired ...
If you suppose yourself in an unregenerate state , be found most earnestly
diligent in the duties of religion , in the use of the means of grace , and in
endeavours of a conformity of life to the will of God , as the way in which God will
be inquired ...
Page 331
So that we have but one business , though we have a great many duties of
various kinds belonging to it . ... of common life , out of duty to God , with a
spiritual frame of soul , and with a hearty desire therein to show yourself
approved unto God .
So that we have but one business , though we have a great many duties of
various kinds belonging to it . ... of common life , out of duty to God , with a
spiritual frame of soul , and with a hearty desire therein to show yourself
approved unto God .
Page 332
You are under the same obligations at all times , as at any time , to perform duty ;
and to observe all duties , as to observe any . For they are all required by the
same authority ; and to be performed to the same object , and for the same end .
You are under the same obligations at all times , as at any time , to perform duty ;
and to observe all duties , as to observe any . For they are all required by the
same authority ; and to be performed to the same object , and for the same end .
Page 334
It is our duty particularly to confess and lament our sins before God ; those
especially which are peculiarly aggravated , or have ... Consider what duties you
have omitted , whether personal or relative ; what parts of instituted worship you
have ...
It is our duty particularly to confess and lament our sins before God ; those
especially which are peculiarly aggravated , or have ... Consider what duties you
have omitted , whether personal or relative ; what parts of instituted worship you
have ...
Page 343
Thus I have set before you a method of filling up your time with duty ; with such
duties , as will , every one of them , tend to promote your progress to eternal bliss
. And I need now only further put you in mind , that besides these daily exercises
...
Thus I have set before you a method of filling up your time with duty ; with such
duties , as will , every one of them , tend to promote your progress to eternal bliss
. And I need now only further put you in mind , that besides these daily exercises
...
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Page 246 - And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Page 128 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Page 156 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 38 - THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL EAT, BUT YE SHALL BE HUNGRY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL DRINK, BUT YE SHALL BE THIRSTY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL REJOICE, BUT YE SHALL BE ASHAMED; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL SING FOR JOY OF HEART, BUT YE SHALL CRY FOR SORROW OF HEART, AND SHALL HOWL FOR VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
Page 283 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
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Page 33 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 320 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Page 245 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Page 283 - Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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| Title | Familiar Letters to a Gentleman: On Several Important Subjects in Religion ... |
| Author | Jonathan Dickinson |
| Contributor | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Religious tract society, 1835 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 349 pages |
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