An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul, Volume 1Edward Earle, 1815 - 354 pages |
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... the sublime truths of our Divine religion , and as the Instructor who has supplied us with the noblest system of the higher ethics , bnt who has even condescended to to extend his code to the more minute exigencies and ix.
... the sublime truths of our Divine religion , and as the Instructor who has supplied us with the noblest system of the higher ethics , bnt who has even condescended to to extend his code to the more minute exigencies and ix.
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... divine sources more clear and distinct views of the Deity than unassisted reason could ever attain ; and of consequence , more correct ideas of what is required of himself , both with respect to God and man . His ideas may be mean in ...
... divine sources more clear and distinct views of the Deity than unassisted reason could ever attain ; and of consequence , more correct ideas of what is required of himself , both with respect to God and man . His ideas may be mean in ...
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... Divine command to make them respected ; and there will naturally be little reverence for a law , where the legislator is not reverenced , much less where he is not recognized . There will also be little B 2 obedience obedience to a law ...
... Divine command to make them respected ; and there will naturally be little reverence for a law , where the legislator is not reverenced , much less where he is not recognized . There will also be little B 2 obedience obedience to a law ...
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... Divine perfections . That inspiring principle , the love of God , the vital spark of all religion , was a mo tive of which they had not so much as heard ; and if they had , it was a feeling which it would have been impossible for them ...
... Divine perfections . That inspiring principle , the love of God , the vital spark of all religion , was a mo tive of which they had not so much as heard ; and if they had , it was a feeling which it would have been impossible for them ...
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... Divine na- ture , have bequeathed no rule for his worship , no direction for his service , no injunctions to obey him ; they have given us little encouragement to virtue , and no alleviation to sorrow but the imprac- ticable injunction ...
... Divine na- ture , have bequeathed no rule for his worship , no direction for his service , no injunctions to obey him ; they have given us little encouragement to virtue , and no alleviation to sorrow but the imprac- ticable injunction ...
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Page 102 - honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good " report ; if there be any virtue, and " if there be any praise, think on these
Page 263 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 146 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 261 - 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 135 - And labour, working with our own hands: Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day, I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Page 263 - For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus : for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews...
Page 261 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...
Page 32 - AND as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom : and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
Page 228 - Christ, that in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 243 - Sound speech that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.