Devout thoughts by deep thinkers, selected from 'the portfolio' of 'The Record' by S. Coalbank, Volume 1Nisbet, 1867 |
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... original ; for nothing can be in the effect which is not eminently in the cause . The cause is always more perfect than the effect . If , therefore , the creatures are wise , the Creator must be much more 8 THE PORTFOLIO .
... original ; for nothing can be in the effect which is not eminently in the cause . The cause is always more perfect than the effect . If , therefore , the creatures are wise , the Creator must be much more 8 THE PORTFOLIO .
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... perfect than the Creator . If you consider the wisdom of the spider in her web , which is both her house and net - the artifice of the bee in her comb , which is both her chamber and granary - the provision of the ant in her ...
... perfect than the Creator . If you consider the wisdom of the spider in her web , which is both her house and net - the artifice of the bee in her comb , which is both her chamber and granary - the provision of the ant in her ...
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... perfect knowledge and full prospect which they shall have of God and heaven hereafter . That little spark of joy is an earnest of those everlasting delights which shall be theirs when all sorrow and mourning shall flee away ; and those ...
... perfect knowledge and full prospect which they shall have of God and heaven hereafter . That little spark of joy is an earnest of those everlasting delights which shall be theirs when all sorrow and mourning shall flee away ; and those ...
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... perfect , before which our sins are as a cloud before the east wind and the rising sun . Hence He is said to do this work with His whole heart and His whole soul , freely , bountifully , largely , to indulge and forgive unto us our sins ...
... perfect , before which our sins are as a cloud before the east wind and the rising sun . Hence He is said to do this work with His whole heart and His whole soul , freely , bountifully , largely , to indulge and forgive unto us our sins ...
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... perfect in His own art , which art is bountiful mercy ; as though all His former blessings were but in the way of earnest , and not of payment ; as though every benefit that He gave were a new obligation upon Him , and not an ...
... perfect in His own art , which art is bountiful mercy ; as though all His former blessings were but in the way of earnest , and not of payment ; as though every benefit that He gave were a new obligation upon Him , and not an ...
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Page 330 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Page 186 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 254 - But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 205 - To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 190 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 344 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 367 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
Page 59 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 275 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 242 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.