Thoughts on personal religionRivingtons, 1868 |
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... these sacrifices must be made - prayer as a tax upon our time compared to alms as a tax upon our substance -- think of yourself as a priest when you offer prayer how these thoughts may help us against the temptation xii Contents .
... these sacrifices must be made - prayer as a tax upon our time compared to alms as a tax upon our substance -- think of yourself as a priest when you offer prayer how these thoughts may help us against the temptation xii Contents .
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Edward Meyrick Goulburn. prayer how these thoughts may help us against the temptation to leave off , when prayer promises to be dry and barren - we pray for God's honour , not exclusively for our own comfort- when you cannot pray as you ...
Edward Meyrick Goulburn. prayer how these thoughts may help us against the temptation to leave off , when prayer promises to be dry and barren - we pray for God's honour , not exclusively for our own comfort- when you cannot pray as you ...
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... TEMPTATION . . 191 " Then was Jesus . . . . tempted of the devil . ” — Matt . iv . 1 . Brightness and cheerfulness of mind necessary to spiritual con- quests - depression under temptation often arises from misappre- hension of its ...
... TEMPTATION . . 191 " Then was Jesus . . . . tempted of the devil . ” — Matt . iv . 1 . Brightness and cheerfulness of mind necessary to spiritual con- quests - depression under temptation often arises from misappre- hension of its ...
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... temptation - temptation cannot become sin till the will consents to it - nor is it always a sign of a sinful nature - this proved by Our Lord's temptation - and by the trial of Abraham's faith - guilt arising from the corruption of our ...
... temptation - temptation cannot become sin till the will consents to it - nor is it always a sign of a sinful nature - this proved by Our Lord's temptation - and by the trial of Abraham's faith - guilt arising from the corruption of our ...
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... temptations as company - let us pause at intervals , and make our thoughts give up their passport - what must be done when derangements of the heart are discovered - spiritual life carried on by many fresh starts - The necessity of ...
... temptations as company - let us pause at intervals , and make our thoughts give up their passport - what must be done when derangements of the heart are discovered - spiritual life carried on by many fresh starts - The necessity of ...
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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.