Sin, as Set Forth in Holy Scripture

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Williams and Norgate, 1875 - Sin - 96 pages

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Page 61 - But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 61 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. " For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Page 16 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 38 - Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Page 59 - To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Page 92 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.,
Page 50 - Christ formed in his heart the hope of glory," — oneness, incorporation, vital and conscious union with the Lord. From this time " the life that he lived in the flesh, he lived by the faith of the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself for him,
Page 76 - The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies.
Page 49 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 36 - Enough appears of the admirable frame and structure of the soul of man to show the Divine Presence did sometime reside in it ; more than enough of vicious deformity to proclaim He is now retired and gone. The lamps are extinct, the altar overturned ; the light and love are now vanished, which did the one shine with so heavenly brightness, the other burn with so pious fervour...

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