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Page 48
... secret of all this ? It is nothing more than the detection of the spirit of disobe- dience , which always dwelt in them , but till then had not betrayed itself . The whole character is told in a single act ; and the less important the ...
... secret of all this ? It is nothing more than the detection of the spirit of disobe- dience , which always dwelt in them , but till then had not betrayed itself . The whole character is told in a single act ; and the less important the ...
Page 70
... secrets of suffer- ing into which not only the rich and soft , but even the charitable and pitiful , can never enter , except by self - denials , of which fasting is an ex- ample and a pledge . 3. And this leads us to the last point ...
... secrets of suffer- ing into which not only the rich and soft , but even the charitable and pitiful , can never enter , except by self - denials , of which fasting is an ex- ample and a pledge . 3. And this leads us to the last point ...
Page 72
... be the cast of character which is seldom , if ever , formed without an habi- tual exercise of secret humiliation . All that we perceive of sympathy and gentleness is the result of contrition 72 [ SERM . FASTING A MEANS TO.
... be the cast of character which is seldom , if ever , formed without an habi- tual exercise of secret humiliation . All that we perceive of sympathy and gentleness is the result of contrition 72 [ SERM . FASTING A MEANS TO.
Page 73
... secret a discipline of self - chastise- ment ; and all attempts at such discipline will be found , sooner or later , to be most imperfect , and indeed all but in vain , unless they are ordered on the rule which is here given by the ...
... secret a discipline of self - chastise- ment ; and all attempts at such discipline will be found , sooner or later , to be most imperfect , and indeed all but in vain , unless they are ordered on the rule which is here given by the ...
Page 74
... secret . " There are few that can stand being noticed , without suffering in the purity of their intention . Howsoever well they may have begun , secondary motives insinuate themselves with a strange subtilty . The comments of others ...
... secret . " There are few that can stand being noticed , without suffering in the purity of their intention . Howsoever well they may have begun , secondary motives insinuate themselves with a strange subtilty . The comments of others ...
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Page 64 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 382 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery ; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned : but what sayest 40 thou ? This they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
Page 342 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 2 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man ; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and Man of the substance of his mother, born in the world ; perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Fattier, as touching his Godhead ; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Page 42 - John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 332 - While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud. 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Page 248 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page ix - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He hath a devil.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 194 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like! unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 313 - of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...