An Essay on Unbelief, etcAuthor, 1811 - 177 pages |
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... righteousness— ~ they have afterwards felt a decline in the spirituality and fervency of their affections , and a cloud has intercepted between God and their souls . This has been a source of disap- pointment to many , who after their ...
... righteousness— ~ they have afterwards felt a decline in the spirituality and fervency of their affections , and a cloud has intercepted between God and their souls . This has been a source of disap- pointment to many , who after their ...
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... righteousness of their own , not submitting themselves to the righteousness of God . Indeed a self - righteous spirit is so inter- woven in our natures , that to be saved without our contributing any thing towards our own salvation ...
... righteousness of their own , not submitting themselves to the righteousness of God . Indeed a self - righteous spirit is so inter- woven in our natures , that to be saved without our contributing any thing towards our own salvation ...
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... righteousness , and of merit as arising out of any conformity to the divine law , so it takes away our supposed ability to do any thing acceptable to God of ourselves . If after having thought highly of our attainments , we should ...
... righteousness , and of merit as arising out of any conformity to the divine law , so it takes away our supposed ability to do any thing acceptable to God of ourselves . If after having thought highly of our attainments , we should ...
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... righteous man avail- eth much , in some future day , their souls will enjoy the benefit of these prayers . Under this delusion they restrain prayer themselves ; for their hearts being yet wedded to some evil way , they fear that their ...
... righteous man avail- eth much , in some future day , their souls will enjoy the benefit of these prayers . Under this delusion they restrain prayer themselves ; for their hearts being yet wedded to some evil way , they fear that their ...
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... righteousness , sanctifi- cation , and redemption . In every office which Christ sustains , faith discerns an important mean- ing not one will appear superfluous , not one without its essential use . Is Christ the author of faith ? No ...
... righteousness , sanctifi- cation , and redemption . In every office which Christ sustains , faith discerns an important mean- ing not one will appear superfluous , not one without its essential use . Is Christ the author of faith ? No ...
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Page 176 - And, beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 131 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Page 173 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 46 - Although my house be not so with God ; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure : for this is all my salvation, and all my , desire, although he make it not to grow.
Page 173 - GOD ; to comfort all that mourn : to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 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 127 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; he seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption.
Page 139 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 46 - God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 153 - As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Page 19 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.