The Sword and the TrowelPassmore & Alabaster., 1866 - Baptists |
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... saving faith , we admit , is from God ; but the exercise or use of that principle is by man . Granting that in the act of believing he is helped by God ; help implies that the act is man's , and not God's . So far as man is concerned in ...
... saving faith , we admit , is from God ; but the exercise or use of that principle is by man . Granting that in the act of believing he is helped by God ; help implies that the act is man's , and not God's . So far as man is concerned in ...
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... saved by the gospel to believe it . To act contrary to God's revealed will is one thing , to act contrary to his decreed will is another . We are responsible for the former , but not the latter . What is not revealed , is no rule of ...
... saved by the gospel to believe it . To act contrary to God's revealed will is one thing , to act contrary to his decreed will is another . We are responsible for the former , but not the latter . What is not revealed , is no rule of ...
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... saved , they are punished for not doing what it was not their duty to do . " 5. That the Spirit of God helps men to do what it is not their duty to do . If it be not the duty of men to believe the gospel , and if the Spirit of God helps ...
... saved , they are punished for not doing what it was not their duty to do . " 5. That the Spirit of God helps men to do what it is not their duty to do . If it be not the duty of men to believe the gospel , and if the Spirit of God helps ...
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... saved . You know how wretched you are without Christ . Why not be happy as I am ; I am only a poor man , but I have a rich God to go to and you have not . I'll tell you how I was saved . Why by believing ! I was told , on God's ...
... saved . You know how wretched you are without Christ . Why not be happy as I am ; I am only a poor man , but I have a rich God to go to and you have not . I'll tell you how I was saved . Why by believing ! I was told , on God's ...
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... saving one immortal soul is the noblest honour God can confer upon a Christian man , but to save hundreds ! Lest I ... saved through his endeavours , and an account of their conversion will not fai to be interesting to the readers of ...
... saving one immortal soul is the noblest honour God can confer upon a Christian man , but to save hundreds ! Lest I ... saved through his endeavours , and an account of their conversion will not fai to be interesting to the readers of ...
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Page 357 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 558 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 434 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 450 - And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Page 211 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 374 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, " In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Page 347 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling : hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee : and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 484 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 521 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart : Be strong, fear not : behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense ; he will come and save you.
Page 352 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.