Visits to 'the Religious World'.R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1829 - 515 pages |
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... object to , is the habit too prevalent among religious persons , of paying a kind of homage to human merit , when they meet with it in some high professor , who , although secretly sacrificing to spiritual pride , ostentation , or a ...
... object to , is the habit too prevalent among religious persons , of paying a kind of homage to human merit , when they meet with it in some high professor , who , although secretly sacrificing to spiritual pride , ostentation , or a ...
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... object to this theory ; for I am persuaded that no man , let his attainments in holiness be what they may , ever so completely gains the ascendency over himself as to destroy the power of sin altogether . I allow that some few by ...
... object to this theory ; for I am persuaded that no man , let his attainments in holiness be what they may , ever so completely gains the ascendency over himself as to destroy the power of sin altogether . I allow that some few by ...
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... objects on whom to bestow her charity ; she did not limit it to her own imme- diate neighbourhood , for besides the many public Institutions to which she contributed , she relieved many individuals to whom her name was never known . She ...
... objects on whom to bestow her charity ; she did not limit it to her own imme- diate neighbourhood , for besides the many public Institutions to which she contributed , she relieved many individuals to whom her name was never known . She ...
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... objects deserving of our esteem was by no means pro- hibited , indeed he thought Christian friendship one of the purest sources of earthly enjoyment . " Provided we don't find the enjoyment inter- fere with our devotedness to better ...
... objects deserving of our esteem was by no means pro- hibited , indeed he thought Christian friendship one of the purest sources of earthly enjoyment . " Provided we don't find the enjoyment inter- fere with our devotedness to better ...
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... object , you would instantly relinquish it ; and that , if by rejecting His favour , you could ensure to yourself any great advantage , you would at once refuse it with indignation ? 66 ' Yes , I think I certainly should ; but this ...
... object , you would instantly relinquish it ; and that , if by rejecting His favour , you could ensure to yourself any great advantage , you would at once refuse it with indignation ? 66 ' Yes , I think I certainly should ; but this ...
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Page 429 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...
Page 398 - If his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments : then will I visit their transgression with the rod ; and their iniquity with stripes.
Page 285 - 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 359 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 369 - JESUS, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress ; 'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.
Page 395 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 318 - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 395 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 106 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17.
Page 315 - I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear ; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see.