Emmanuel: Or, a Discovery of True Religion, as it Imports a Living Principle in the Minds of Men, and on Communion with GodWilliam Collins, 1829 - 304 pages |
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Page xxi
... seek happiness in pleasures and pursuits , which are not only pervaded by a principle of ungodliness , inas- much as they have no reference to the divine glory , but are actually opposed to what he has expressly revealed as his will ...
... seek happiness in pleasures and pursuits , which are not only pervaded by a principle of ungodliness , inas- much as they have no reference to the divine glory , but are actually opposed to what he has expressly revealed as his will ...
Page xxix
... seek after a hiding place from the storm , and a covert from the tempest , it is because the Spirit of God has given power and efficacy to the word , whereby it has become quick and powerful , and sharper than any two - edged sword ...
... seek after a hiding place from the storm , and a covert from the tempest , it is because the Spirit of God has given power and efficacy to the word , whereby it has become quick and powerful , and sharper than any two - edged sword ...
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... seek the good of the public before self - gratifications . For so God rules the world ; who , however some men slander him , I dare say , hath made nothing the duty of his creature , but what is really the good of it : neither doth he ...
... seek the good of the public before self - gratifications . For so God rules the world ; who , however some men slander him , I dare say , hath made nothing the duty of his creature , but what is really the good of it : neither doth he ...
Page 53
... seek the advancement of Christ's kingdom , ( which indeed every disorderly , tumultuous , proud , impatient soul doth , ipso facto , deny and destroy , ) but of themselves . To whom one might justly apply the censure which Pharaoh ...
... seek the advancement of Christ's kingdom , ( which indeed every disorderly , tumultuous , proud , impatient soul doth , ipso facto , deny and destroy , ) but of themselves . To whom one might justly apply the censure which Pharaoh ...
Page 64
... respect in that it would moderate men's desires of corruptible riches , forbid them to seek the things of this world any more , or any otherwise , than in consistency with , and subserviency to , their primary and 64.
... respect in that it would moderate men's desires of corruptible riches , forbid them to seek the things of this world any more , or any otherwise , than in consistency with , and subserviency to , their primary and 64.
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Page 153 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
Page 186 - Peter answered, and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Page 156 - Lord, save us, we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him...
Page 200 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 101 - I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Page 158 - In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and he, that is feeble among them, at that day shall be as David ; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
Page 87 - For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
Page 194 - Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 227 - LORD : my spirit faileth : hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Page 102 - From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head...