The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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Page 14
... believe not one sylla- ble of Christianity as they ought . Again , there are others who , " like a man be- holding his face in a glass , goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was . " James i . 24. The word of ...
... believe not one sylla- ble of Christianity as they ought . Again , there are others who , " like a man be- holding his face in a glass , goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was . " James i . 24. The word of ...
Page 18
... nothing in the declaration of this duty , but what is incumbent on all that believe in Christ , and without which they have no grounds to assure their con- science before God . CHAP . II . " The grace and duty of 18 The Grace and Duty of.
... nothing in the declaration of this duty , but what is incumbent on all that believe in Christ , and without which they have no grounds to assure their con- science before God . CHAP . II . " The grace and duty of 18 The Grace and Duty of.
Page 61
... believe there is a storm a coming , they must bear the severity thereof . When calamities , PUBLIC or PRIVATE , take place , this is the time wherein we may have an especial trial whether we be spiritually minded or not . If grace be ...
... believe there is a storm a coming , they must bear the severity thereof . When calamities , PUBLIC or PRIVATE , take place , this is the time wherein we may have an especial trial whether we be spiritually minded or not . If grace be ...
Page 72
... believe in him . The same duty is incumbent on us with respect to any urgent general temptation : there are seasons wherein an hour of temptation comes on the earth to try them that dwell therein ; and what if a man should judge that ...
... believe in him . The same duty is incumbent on us with respect to any urgent general temptation : there are seasons wherein an hour of temptation comes on the earth to try them that dwell therein ; and what if a man should judge that ...
Page 91
... believe in him . To be a Christian supposes a continued thought- fulness of Christ ; but we should be care- ful that our thoughts of him are con- ceived and directed according to the rules prescribed in the sacred oracles , lest we ...
... believe in him . To be a Christian supposes a continued thought- fulness of Christ ; but we should be care- ful that our thoughts of him are con- ceived and directed according to the rules prescribed in the sacred oracles , lest we ...
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Page 14 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 128 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 224 - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely ; for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Page 168 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth shall...
Page 109 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 221 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Page 12 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 104 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Page 28 - When He slew them, then they sought Him: and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Page 123 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.