Discourses on Various Points of Christian Faith and Practice: Most of which Were Delivered in the Chapel of the Oratoire in Paris in the Spring of M.DCCC.XVI |
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... purity , with dread of his justice , and with gratitude for his mercy.- It rejoices in submission to his will . It relies with confidence on his strength . It trusts impli- citly in his promises . It longs to be made the humble , yet ...
... purity , with dread of his justice , and with gratitude for his mercy.- It rejoices in submission to his will . It relies with confidence on his strength . It trusts impli- citly in his promises . It longs to be made the humble , yet ...
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... purity and peace , with kindness and charity - a scene was often exhibited of discord , intemperance , and con- fusion . Seated round the very table of the Lord , holding in their hands the mystical symbols of his body broken and his ...
... purity and peace , with kindness and charity - a scene was often exhibited of discord , intemperance , and con- fusion . Seated round the very table of the Lord , holding in their hands the mystical symbols of his body broken and his ...
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... purity of the law of God . - The purity of this law is to be distinguished from its justice . The latter threatens a penalty which addresses itself to our fears : the former holds forth the rule of right conduct , and claims the assent ...
... purity of the law of God . - The purity of this law is to be distinguished from its justice . The latter threatens a penalty which addresses itself to our fears : the former holds forth the rule of right conduct , and claims the assent ...
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... purity of heart which consists in bringing , or at least attempting to reduce , the most retired thoughts , the most secret motives of conduct , into subjection to the law of God , which requires that we should do all things for his ...
... purity of heart which consists in bringing , or at least attempting to reduce , the most retired thoughts , the most secret motives of conduct , into subjection to the law of God , which requires that we should do all things for his ...
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... purity and happiness of the heavenly state ? And with this zeal for the Lord of Hosts , with this el- evation of mind above the world , do we make it our daily business , in some way or other , to add our humble efforts , a portion of ...
... purity and happiness of the heavenly state ? And with this zeal for the Lord of Hosts , with this el- evation of mind above the world , do we make it our daily business , in some way or other , to add our humble efforts , a portion of ...
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Page 5 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 198 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height ; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 7 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; For he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.
Page 205 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 108 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 180 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Page 179 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 101 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 118 - Servants obey in all things your masters, according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Page 177 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.