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... reasons sufficient to create an anxiety for the most satisfying conviction and the clearest perception of their import and bearings . Can it be an insignificant B calamity , to misapprehend a revelation from the Eter- nal THE IMPORTANCE ...
... reasons sufficient to create an anxiety for the most satisfying conviction and the clearest perception of their import and bearings . Can it be an insignificant B calamity , to misapprehend a revelation from the Eter- nal THE IMPORTANCE ...
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... reason , to discourage the aims , and to urge to despondency the minds , of the lowly and sincere . Overwrought efforts of this de- scription fail in spite of the pure and lofty motives which prompt them ; of which , perhaps a more me ...
... reason , to discourage the aims , and to urge to despondency the minds , of the lowly and sincere . Overwrought efforts of this de- scription fail in spite of the pure and lofty motives which prompt them ; of which , perhaps a more me ...
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... reasons . What valuable ends are answered ! The presentation of clear and forcible views upon these great points , has an awakening effect upon the irreligious . When the leading excellencies of christian character are put in their own ...
... reasons . What valuable ends are answered ! The presentation of clear and forcible views upon these great points , has an awakening effect upon the irreligious . When the leading excellencies of christian character are put in their own ...
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... reason is simple and easy . If we forget , we are apt to act as if we did not know . Things lose their pow- er to affect us when little thought of . We fail to apply our principles when we cease to view them . And besides the partial ...
... reason is simple and easy . If we forget , we are apt to act as if we did not know . Things lose their pow- er to affect us when little thought of . We fail to apply our principles when we cease to view them . And besides the partial ...
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... reasons to suppose that it is far less clearly under- stood than many other important parts of religion . Many a mind that forms some tolerably correct no- tions of being spiritually minded , of loving God , of sincerity , and some ...
... reasons to suppose that it is far less clearly under- stood than many other important parts of religion . Many a mind that forms some tolerably correct no- tions of being spiritually minded , of loving God , of sincerity , and some ...
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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.