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... glory , works for , as well as from life . " 3. We have received it as a maxim , that a man is to do nothing in order to justification . ' Nothing can be more false . Whoever desires to find favour with God , should cease from evil ...
... glory , works for , as well as from life . " 3. We have received it as a maxim , that a man is to do nothing in order to justification . ' Nothing can be more false . Whoever desires to find favour with God , should cease from evil ...
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... glory of his grace , and ascribing too much to man's power , " directly or indirectly maintain that Demas and his fellow apostates never had any grace ; and that if once they went on far in the ways of God , it was merely by the force ...
... glory of his grace , and ascribing too much to man's power , " directly or indirectly maintain that Demas and his fellow apostates never had any grace ; and that if once they went on far in the ways of God , it was merely by the force ...
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... glory every way , entirely ascribing to his mercy and grace all the salvation of the elect , and completely freeing him from the blame of directly or indirectly hang- ing the millstone of damnation about the neck of the reprobate . And ...
... glory every way , entirely ascribing to his mercy and grace all the salvation of the elect , and completely freeing him from the blame of directly or indirectly hang- ing the millstone of damnation about the neck of the reprobate . And ...
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... glory . " God forbid that I should glory in any thing , save in the cross of Christ . " As the truth of God is in me , no man shall stop me of this glorying , " that I have kept myself from being burdensome . I am the chief of sinners ...
... glory . " God forbid that I should glory in any thing , save in the cross of Christ . " As the truth of God is in me , no man shall stop me of this glorying , " that I have kept myself from being burdensome . I am the chief of sinners ...
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... glory . And that is it which our Saviour shows , Luke xvi , 10-12 , He that is unjust , unfaithful , in the least , is unjust , unfaithful also in much . The riches of this world are the less ; grace and glory are the greater . Now , if ...
... glory . And that is it which our Saviour shows , Luke xvi , 10-12 , He that is unjust , unfaithful , in the least , is unjust , unfaithful also in much . The riches of this world are the less ; grace and glory are the greater . Now , if ...
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Page 532 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 13 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 35 - How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Page 180 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 59 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 85 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh : for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 74 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Page 386 - As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 586 - Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Page 141 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...