Familiar Letters to a Gentleman: Upon a Variety of Seasonable and Important Subjects in Religion |
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... body of this death ! When , therefore , you are heartily engaged in this war , and feel in yourself that you are continually led on to victory , can you doubt , who it is that approves himself the captain of your salvation ? Can you ...
... body of this death ! When , therefore , you are heartily engaged in this war , and feel in yourself that you are continually led on to victory , can you doubt , who it is that approves himself the captain of your salvation ? Can you ...
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... body ? Or how can any disordered temperature of the body produce in the mind ( contrary to the habitual bent and bias of the renewed soul ) such fierce , impetuous , and irresistible blasphemies against the glorious God , and the bless ...
... body ? Or how can any disordered temperature of the body produce in the mind ( contrary to the habitual bent and bias of the renewed soul ) such fierce , impetuous , and irresistible blasphemies against the glorious God , and the bless ...
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... body without the spirit is dead , so faith with- out works is dead also . Of such a faith we may therefore say with the same apostle , What doth it profit , though a man say that he has faith ? Can faith save him ? But I need not ...
... body without the spirit is dead , so faith with- out works is dead also . Of such a faith we may therefore say with the same apostle , What doth it profit , though a man say that he has faith ? Can faith save him ? But I need not ...
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... body of this death ! Thus the penitent groans being burden- ed ; not for fear of hell , such fear being no part of a true repentance , though it may sometimes accompany a sincere and godly sorrow for sin . But this sorrow arises from an ...
... body of this death ! Thus the penitent groans being burden- ed ; not for fear of hell , such fear being no part of a true repentance , though it may sometimes accompany a sincere and godly sorrow for sin . But this sorrow arises from an ...
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... body of death ! ' " Thus the true penitent goes with his face Zion - ward , mourning as he goes . And thus in his highest attainments of comfort and joy , will he find cause to be deeply hum- bled before God , and to wrestle with him ...
... body of death ! ' " Thus the true penitent goes with his face Zion - ward , mourning as he goes . And thus in his highest attainments of comfort and joy , will he find cause to be deeply hum- bled before God , and to wrestle with him ...
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Page 184 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
Page 235 - And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Page 36 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 156 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 131 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of [Christ] : for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Page 40 - THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL EAT, BUT YE SHALL BE HUNGRY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL DRINK, BUT YE SHALL BE THIRSTY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL REJOICE, BUT YE SHALL BE ASHAMED; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL SING FOR JOY OF HEART, BUT YE SHALL CRY FOR SORROW OF HEART, AND SHALL HOWL FOR VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
Page 65 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and 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 112 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about : mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me.
Page 234 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Page 204 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.