The Christian Spectator, Volume 4Howe & Spalding, 1822 - Theology |
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... practice . To apply our hearts unto wisdom , is to devote the best of our time and talents to the study and practice of vital godliness . So numbering our days as that we may do this , is making the most of every day as it passes ...
... practice . To apply our hearts unto wisdom , is to devote the best of our time and talents to the study and practice of vital godliness . So numbering our days as that we may do this , is making the most of every day as it passes ...
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... practice of true religion . endowed ? Who in making choice While he is necessarily busied with of his profession , trade , or other em- things seen and temporal , he keeps ployment in life ; —or in fixing upon his eye steadily fixed ...
... practice of true religion . endowed ? Who in making choice While he is necessarily busied with of his profession , trade , or other em- things seen and temporal , he keeps ployment in life ; —or in fixing upon his eye steadily fixed ...
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... practice of true religion , in whatever condition of life we may be placed . Some may be ready to enquire , how it is possible in a world where so much is to be done for the body , and espe- cially in employments such as theirs , to ...
... practice of true religion , in whatever condition of life we may be placed . Some may be ready to enquire , how it is possible in a world where so much is to be done for the body , and espe- cially in employments such as theirs , to ...
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... practice the most exalted of these virtues , may at the same time , be as destitute of moral excellency in the sight of God , as those who have long since forfeited the esteem and confi- dence of all their acquaintances . The reason is ...
... practice the most exalted of these virtues , may at the same time , be as destitute of moral excellency in the sight of God , as those who have long since forfeited the esteem and confi- dence of all their acquaintances . The reason is ...
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... practice of morality and the demand for it , are measured by the operations of a self love , which so far from signalizing any man , or prepar- ing him for eternity , he possesses in common with the fiercest and most degenerate of his ...
... practice of morality and the demand for it , are measured by the operations of a self love , which so far from signalizing any man , or prepar- ing him for eternity , he possesses in common with the fiercest and most degenerate of his ...
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Page 506 - Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Page 184 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 506 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Page 226 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 11 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 519 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 284 - But He answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
Page 126 - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Page 186 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 571 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.