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... Divine Supremacy - When we so act as to show that we seek our chief happiness in God - When in our actions we concur and co - operate in the divine designs -When we act with a pure aim that God may be known , enjoyed and served - When ...
... Divine Supremacy - When we so act as to show that we seek our chief happiness in God - When in our actions we concur and co - operate in the divine designs -When we act with a pure aim that God may be known , enjoyed and served - When ...
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... divine glory . 128 CHAPTER VII . MOTIVES WHICH SHOULD INDUCE US TO DO ALL THINGS TO THE GLORY OF GOD ... . . . 148 Our derived being and dependant relation - God seeks his own glory in all he does ; it must therefore be an exalted and ...
... divine glory . 128 CHAPTER VII . MOTIVES WHICH SHOULD INDUCE US TO DO ALL THINGS TO THE GLORY OF GOD ... . . . 148 Our derived being and dependant relation - God seeks his own glory in all he does ; it must therefore be an exalted and ...
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... divine will - Unlimitted confi- dence - By the delight he takes in God - Active and useful employments - By resemblance to God - By exalted and perfect worship . 265 286 CHAPTER XIII . PAGE REFLECTIONS UPON THE WHOLE SUBJECT OF CONTENTS ...
... divine will - Unlimitted confi- dence - By the delight he takes in God - Active and useful employments - By resemblance to God - By exalted and perfect worship . 265 286 CHAPTER XIII . PAGE REFLECTIONS UPON THE WHOLE SUBJECT OF CONTENTS ...
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... divine require- ments , and of eternal destinies - that they " sanctify , " " make us free , " and " save our souls - that they yield us " comfort and hope , " " peace and joy in be- lieving " -- and that they bring us under new and ...
... divine require- ments , and of eternal destinies - that they " sanctify , " " make us free , " and " save our souls - that they yield us " comfort and hope , " " peace and joy in be- lieving " -- and that they bring us under new and ...
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... divine requirements and his own responsibilities . What thought so likely to visit him at this moment , as the strange , the startling , the awful distance be- tween the divine claims and his own character - be- tween what he is and ...
... divine requirements and his own responsibilities . What thought so likely to visit him at this moment , as the strange , the startling , the awful distance be- tween the divine claims and his own character - be- tween what he is and ...
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Page 69 - Spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 173 - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 94 - To the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 85 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness. sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 133 - One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 93 - And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons...
Page 132 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 160 - I have overcome the world. [These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said] : — Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee : as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Page 197 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 131 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus : that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.