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... lust were there even in the primitive times , gilded with the specious name of Christians . The epistle in our translation beareth title thus : " The Epistle General of James , ” in the Greek , Ιακώβε το Αποτόλε Επιτολὴ Καθολική , The ...
... lust were there even in the primitive times , gilded with the specious name of Christians . The epistle in our translation beareth title thus : " The Epistle General of James , ” in the Greek , Ιακώβε το Αποτόλε Επιτολὴ Καθολική , The ...
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... lusts , nor our own fancies . To ask * Grotius in Annot . in Mat . xviii . 19 . according to our lusts , is an implicit blasphemy , CHAPTER I. - VERSE V. 29.
... lusts , nor our own fancies . To ask * Grotius in Annot . in Mat . xviii . 19 . according to our lusts , is an implicit blasphemy , CHAPTER I. - VERSE V. 29.
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... lusts " ( Jam . iv . 3 ) . Never let your requests terminate in self . That was but a brutish request , " Give us water that we may drink " ( Exod . xvii . 2 ) . A beast can aim at self - preservation . Prayer , as every act of the ...
... lusts " ( Jam . iv . 3 ) . Never let your requests terminate in self . That was but a brutish request , " Give us water that we may drink " ( Exod . xvii . 2 ) . A beast can aim at self - preservation . Prayer , as every act of the ...
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... lusts . Where there is pride and wantonness , you may look for a burning . Certainly your flowers will be scorched and dried up . Pleasant Sodom , when it was given to pride , and idleness , and fulness of bread , met with a burning ...
... lusts . Where there is pride and wantonness , you may look for a burning . Certainly your flowers will be scorched and dried up . Pleasant Sodom , when it was given to pride , and idleness , and fulness of bread , met with a burning ...
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... lust have more power upon them , than the love of God upon me ? I have higher motives , and a reward more sure ( Proverbs xi . 18 ) . They are more earnest for an earthly purchase , and to heap up treasure to themselves , than I am to ...
... lust have more power upon them , than the love of God upon me ? I have higher motives , and a reward more sure ( Proverbs xi . 18 ) . They are more earnest for an earthly purchase , and to heap up treasure to themselves , than I am to ...
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Page 237 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 430 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 145 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 313 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.
Page 436 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, And they shall hear the earth ; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil ; And they shall hear Jezreel.
Page 376 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 36 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 53 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 354 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 419 - Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church ; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.