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... thoughts of him , as high and excellent as his nature ; our conceptions must be as infinite as his nature . All our imaginations of him cannot represent him , be- cause every created species is finite ; it cannot there- fore represent ...
... thoughts of him , as high and excellent as his nature ; our conceptions must be as infinite as his nature . All our imaginations of him cannot represent him , be- cause every created species is finite ; it cannot there- fore represent ...
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... thoughts fixed upon the spi- ritual object : the union of all the parts of the heart together with the body , is the life of the body ; and the moral union of our hearts , is the life of duty . A wandering divided heart makes not God ...
... thoughts fixed upon the spi- ritual object : the union of all the parts of the heart together with the body , is the life of the body ; and the moral union of our hearts , is the life of duty . A wandering divided heart makes not God ...
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... thoughts run from God , it is a testimony we have no spiritual affection to God ; affection would stake down the thoughts to the object affected : it is but a mouth - love , as the prophet phrases it , ( Ezek . xxxiii . 31 , ) but their ...
... thoughts run from God , it is a testimony we have no spiritual affection to God ; affection would stake down the thoughts to the object affected : it is but a mouth - love , as the prophet phrases it , ( Ezek . xxxiii . 31 , ) but their ...
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... admit carnal thoughts to mix them- selves with spiritual duties , and fasten our minds to the creature , under pretences of directing them to the Creator ? Do we not pass a mere compliment C 2 1. THE SPIRITUALITY OF GOD . 19.
... admit carnal thoughts to mix them- selves with spiritual duties , and fasten our minds to the creature , under pretences of directing them to the Creator ? Do we not pass a mere compliment C 2 1. THE SPIRITUALITY OF GOD . 19.
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... thoughts of God are not spiritual thoughts , so unaffecting addresses to God are not spiritual addresses . Well then , what awa- kenings , and elevations of faith and love have we ? What strong outflowings of our soul to him ? What ...
... thoughts of God are not spiritual thoughts , so unaffecting addresses to God are not spiritual addresses . Well then , what awa- kenings , and elevations of faith and love have we ? What strong outflowings of our soul to him ? What ...
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Page 374 - Both young men, and maidens; old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord: For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 271 - Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Page 251 - Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Page 105 - They shall abundantly utter The memory of Thy great goodness, And shall sing of Thy righteousness. THE LORD is gracious, and full of compassion ; Slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Page 278 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 362 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 246 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 334 - It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Page 199 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?' saith the Lord God: 'and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 368 - And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen ; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?