The Christian Advocate, Volume 10A. Finley, 1832 |
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... object . But in neither of these do we receive an object , and appropriate it to ourselves . To do this , is exclusively the province and function of faith . Its object has already been described - Christ in the gospel offer . This object ...
... object . But in neither of these do we receive an object , and appropriate it to ourselves . To do this , is exclusively the province and function of faith . Its object has already been described - Christ in the gospel offer . This object ...
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... object of the Christian's aim , and the proper means to reach it were faithfully employed , it would be realized a thousand times , where it is now seen in a single instance . The question is frequently asked -is assurance of the ...
... object of the Christian's aim , and the proper means to reach it were faithfully employed , it would be realized a thousand times , where it is now seen in a single instance . The question is frequently asked -is assurance of the ...
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... object . Thus the apos- tle Paul reasons : " For scarcely for a righteous man will one die , yet , peradventure , for a good man some would even dare to die . But God commendeth his love towards us , in that while we were yet sin- ners ...
... object . Thus the apos- tle Paul reasons : " For scarcely for a righteous man will one die , yet , peradventure , for a good man some would even dare to die . But God commendeth his love towards us , in that while we were yet sin- ners ...
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... object . - Thus , for example , supposing any person of a charac- ter justly hateful in itself , from ca- price , self - interest , or any other sinister motive , to bestow many signal favours upon another , the beneficiary might ...
... object . - Thus , for example , supposing any person of a charac- ter justly hateful in itself , from ca- price , self - interest , or any other sinister motive , to bestow many signal favours upon another , the beneficiary might ...
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... objects ? It is a received maxim that there can be no true love where there is not some likeness and conformity of nature and disposi- tion to the object beloved , and an endeavour after more . And this is a maxim that will in no case ...
... objects ? It is a received maxim that there can be no true love where there is not some likeness and conformity of nature and disposi- tion to the object beloved , and an endeavour after more . And this is a maxim that will in no case ...
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Page 94 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 8 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 91 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, for to •will is present with me; but how to perform that •which is good I find not.
Page 43 - For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Page 257 - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.
Page 3 - 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.