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... able Treatise - the work of self - examination . But self - examination is a work of great difficulty , and is accordingly shrunk from , or altogether declined by the great body of professing Christians . It is more the habitual style ...
... able Treatise - the work of self - examination . But self - examination is a work of great difficulty , and is accordingly shrunk from , or altogether declined by the great body of professing Christians . It is more the habitual style ...
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... able to read the devices of the inner man , let our first attempt be to read the doings of the outer man : " Hereby know we that we know him , if we keep his commandments . " This is a palpable test , in as far , at least , as the hand ...
... able to read the devices of the inner man , let our first attempt be to read the doings of the outer man : " Hereby know we that we know him , if we keep his commandments . " This is a palpable test , in as far , at least , as the hand ...
Page xv
... able to arrive at a finding , and a familiarity with the now hidden depths of a spiritual experience . There is much to be gathered even from this more rude and elementary process of self - examination . " By their fruits shall ye know ...
... able to arrive at a finding , and a familiarity with the now hidden depths of a spiritual experience . There is much to be gathered even from this more rude and elementary process of self - examination . " By their fruits shall ye know ...
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... able to grope his way among the arcana of the inner man . There might not be a more inscrutable thing to him in nature , than the mystery of his own spirit ; and not a darker or more impenetrable chaos , than that heart which ever ...
... able to grope his way among the arcana of the inner man . There might not be a more inscrutable thing to him in nature , than the mystery of his own spirit ; and not a darker or more impenetrable chaos , than that heart which ever ...
Page xvii
... able to analyze the feelings which enter into the hidden life of obedience ; but we can take account of the literalities of obe- dience . The hasty utterance by which we wounded another's sensibilities - the pleasantries by which we ...
... able to analyze the feelings which enter into the hidden life of obedience ; but we can take account of the literalities of obe- dience . The hasty utterance by which we wounded another's sensibilities - the pleasantries by which we ...
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Page 124 - But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him , how dwelleth the love of God in him ? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Page 229 - Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth : and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt ; and serve ye the LORD.
Page 183 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 63 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Page 92 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 240 - Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Page 131 - If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page 128 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended or is made weak.
Page 206 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, 1 gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Page 217 - Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, "My foot slippeth;" thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.