Thoughts on personal religionRivingtons, 1868 |
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... persons - may it not be due to their not expecting an answer ? -would they not be surprised if an answer should come ? - Our despondency as regards any fruits of sanctity in ourselves - necessity of honouring God while we pray , by ...
... persons - may it not be due to their not expecting an answer ? -would they not be surprised if an answer should come ? - Our despondency as regards any fruits of sanctity in ourselves - necessity of honouring God while we pray , by ...
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... persons often suppose all to be right with them because they are the subjects of so many good impres- sions . God's grace comes to us from without , in order to quicken spiritual life in us ; but the life itself is some- thing internal ...
... persons often suppose all to be right with them because they are the subjects of so many good impres- sions . God's grace comes to us from without , in order to quicken spiritual life in us ; but the life itself is some- thing internal ...
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... person , a weak one cannot lift a heavy weight ; but the dependence of the weak person on the strong in order to lift the weight , is not the dependence which the word here employed indicates . " Apart from " the soul ( or principle of ...
... person , a weak one cannot lift a heavy weight ; but the dependence of the weak person on the strong in order to lift the weight , is not the dependence which the word here employed indicates . " Apart from " the soul ( or principle of ...
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... persons of ordinary religious acquirements would be altogether superfluous . But it is thought that , unlike Justification ( which is something that passes on the sinner externally to him , a sentence of acquittal pronounced on him by ...
... persons of ordinary religious acquirements would be altogether superfluous . But it is thought that , unlike Justification ( which is something that passes on the sinner externally to him , a sentence of acquittal pronounced on him by ...
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... person , the muscular action a move- ment of the person . It is also clearly seen that neither pitcher nor muscular ... persons are deficient ; but it is in that believing use of them , which recognizes Him as the only Source of Grace ...
... person , the muscular action a move- ment of the person . It is also clearly seen that neither pitcher nor muscular ... persons are deficient ; but it is in that believing use of them , which recognizes Him as the only Source of Grace ...
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Page 111 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Page 83 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 206 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 19 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page xiv - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page xxxi - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Page 187 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 324 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed : thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 34 - All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture " for Thy sake " Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 142 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, "of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy seed be called/ "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.