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... mean place , in com- parison of heaven ; its employments low and sordid ; its enjoyments few and imperfect and transitory : yet it is the world in which our Creator has placed us for a a time ; and he has given us capacities and ...
... mean place , in com- parison of heaven ; its employments low and sordid ; its enjoyments few and imperfect and transitory : yet it is the world in which our Creator has placed us for a a time ; and he has given us capacities and ...
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... means of weaning the heart from the love of the world and its objects , and fixing the affec- tions upon higher and better things above . This life is not the whole , nor even the principal part , of our ex- istence ; nay , it is only ...
... means of weaning the heart from the love of the world and its objects , and fixing the affec- tions upon higher and better things above . This life is not the whole , nor even the principal part , of our ex- istence ; nay , it is only ...
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... mean to communicate hope . The whole tenor of the Gospel is calculated to impart it . All the primitive Christians rejoiced in hope . It cannot be doubted that hope , if well founded , would have a most powerful effect both upon our ...
... mean to communicate hope . The whole tenor of the Gospel is calculated to impart it . All the primitive Christians rejoiced in hope . It cannot be doubted that hope , if well founded , would have a most powerful effect both upon our ...
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... means of grace . Filling the soul with love to God and an ar- dent devotion to him , it purifies the heart , even as God is pure , as heaven is pure , as all the joys of heaven are pure . Great also is the encouragement it imparts in ...
... means of grace . Filling the soul with love to God and an ar- dent devotion to him , it purifies the heart , even as God is pure , as heaven is pure , as all the joys of heaven are pure . Great also is the encouragement it imparts in ...
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... means of ac- quiring it : -it is the acknowledgment of the need we have of it ; the serious review and confession of our neg- lect of it ; the solemn determination of the mind to be more stedfast and immoveable in the pursuit and ...
... means of ac- quiring it : -it is the acknowledgment of the need we have of it ; the serious review and confession of our neg- lect of it ; the solemn determination of the mind to be more stedfast and immoveable in the pursuit and ...
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Page 226 - What shall we say then ? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein...
Page 175 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page vi - He is despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him: he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every...
Page 225 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 119 - Even the Most High, thy habitation ; There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.
Page 208 - 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 xi - And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 233 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a li vely faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page viii - There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God : for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 131 - 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; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.