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... performing them , has simply and independently any effect upon the human heart . They may perhaps dread- fully convince the understanding : but God alone can convert the soul . The state of man by nature is precisely the same now , as ...
... performing them , has simply and independently any effect upon the human heart . They may perhaps dread- fully convince the understanding : but God alone can convert the soul . The state of man by nature is precisely the same now , as ...
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... performing their duty only by halves . Different persons are so differently consti- tuted , that duties are more or ... performed were , undoubtedly , du- ties but they were duties , which , in their situation , required no great degree ...
... performing their duty only by halves . Different persons are so differently consti- tuted , that duties are more or ... performed were , undoubtedly , du- ties but they were duties , which , in their situation , required no great degree ...
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... perform those duties , to which simply from their natural constitution they have no re- pugnance and they resolutely deny them- selves all those fashionable follies , for which hey previously entertained the most profound indifference ...
... perform those duties , to which simply from their natural constitution they have no re- pugnance and they resolutely deny them- selves all those fashionable follies , for which hey previously entertained the most profound indifference ...
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... perform in his own strength any acceptable service ? He may indeed , in the pride of his high speculations , imagine him- self to be rich and to have need of nothing : but the word of God will inform him , that he is wretched , and ...
... perform in his own strength any acceptable service ? He may indeed , in the pride of his high speculations , imagine him- self to be rich and to have need of nothing : but the word of God will inform him , that he is wretched , and ...
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... performing the external works of the Law ; and that it was of little moment , whether they were done voluntarily or involun- tarily . Meanwhile , their internal blindness , their avarice , and their darkened heart , passed without ...
... performing the external works of the Law ; and that it was of little moment , whether they were done voluntarily or involun- tarily . Meanwhile , their internal blindness , their avarice , and their darkened heart , passed without ...
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Page 101 - 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. For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page 142 - There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine anger ; Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Page 84 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; But with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, Saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 143 - My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 85 - And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 129 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 61 - But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Page 15 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 222 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 179 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved) ; and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus...