The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced |
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... reward such conduct secures - Personal satisfaction - Success in the enterprise of benevolence - The as- surance of Divine love - Incentives to christian generosity - None must depend on good works alone . Page 106 LECTURE VII . FAITH ...
... reward such conduct secures - Personal satisfaction - Success in the enterprise of benevolence - The as- surance of Divine love - Incentives to christian generosity - None must depend on good works alone . Page 106 LECTURE VII . FAITH ...
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... reward . " Paul writes to the Galatians : " By love serve one another . For all the law is fulfilled in one word , even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . ” John writes : " Beloved , thou doest faithfully whatsoever ...
... reward . " Paul writes to the Galatians : " By love serve one another . For all the law is fulfilled in one word , even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . ” John writes : " Beloved , thou doest faithfully whatsoever ...
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... reward thee openly , " Matt . vi . 6. Public , pri- vate , and family prayer fans the flame of love , secures the Divine favour , and increases our happiness . Having noticed the nature , manifestations , and means by which our love to ...
... reward thee openly , " Matt . vi . 6. Public , pri- vate , and family prayer fans the flame of love , secures the Divine favour , and increases our happiness . Having noticed the nature , manifestations , and means by which our love to ...
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... reward , " The fear of death is re- moved , and crowns glitter through the skies . Many re- coil and tremble at the thought of dying ; no wonder , when they are without God and without hope of hea- ven . But christians rejoice in hope ...
... reward , " The fear of death is re- moved , and crowns glitter through the skies . Many re- coil and tremble at the thought of dying ; no wonder , when they are without God and without hope of hea- ven . But christians rejoice in hope ...
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... reward in heaven : for so perse- cuted they the prophets which were before you , " Matt . v . 11 , 12 . All christians are subject to persecution and reproach while in this evil world . The strength of their faith , the firmness of ...
... reward in heaven : for so perse- cuted they the prophets which were before you , " Matt . v . 11 , 12 . All christians are subject to persecution and reproach while in this evil world . The strength of their faith , the firmness of ...
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Page 88 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 76 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 179 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 135 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 160 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness : and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace ; above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God...
Page 17 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar : for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God Whom he hath not seen ? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also.
Page 118 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those tilings which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Page 128 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 162 - Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Page 50 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us ; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances ; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.