An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul, Volume 1Edward Earle, 1815 - 354 pages |
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... teach Thou me , " is a petition which even the wisest are not too wise to offer ; and they who have preferred it with the most effect , are , of all others , the persons who will judge the most ten- derly of the different views , or ...
... teach Thou me , " is a petition which even the wisest are not too wise to offer ; and they who have preferred it with the most effect , are , of all others , the persons who will judge the most ten- derly of the different views , or ...
Page viii
... teacher . '匮 The Writer is persuaded that many read the Epistles of Saint Paul with deep reverence for the station they hold in the Inspired Oracles , without considering that they are at the same time supremely excellent for their ...
... teacher . '匮 The Writer is persuaded that many read the Epistles of Saint Paul with deep reverence for the station they hold in the Inspired Oracles , without considering that they are at the same time supremely excellent for their ...
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... teachers of morals , sel- dom gave the Deity a place in their ethics . Between these conflicting instructors the people stood little chance of acquiring any justnotions of moral rectitude . They were indeed under a necessity of ...
... teachers of morals , sel- dom gave the Deity a place in their ethics . Between these conflicting instructors the people stood little chance of acquiring any justnotions of moral rectitude . They were indeed under a necessity of ...
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... teach them their duty to man , was to keep their deities out of sight ! H It is , indeed , but justice to acknow- ledge , that most of the different schools of philosophy held some one great truth . Aristotle maintained the existence of ...
... teach them their duty to man , was to keep their deities out of sight ! H It is , indeed , but justice to acknow- ledge , that most of the different schools of philosophy held some one great truth . Aristotle maintained the existence of ...
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... Teacher , unless they had understood that grand paradox of Christianity , that lowliness of heart was among the highest attainments to be made by a rational creature . When they had heard the beginning of that animating interrogation ...
... Teacher , unless they had understood that grand paradox of Christianity , that lowliness of heart was among the highest attainments to be made by a rational creature . When they had heard the beginning of that animating interrogation ...
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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.