The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... consist : thus , we taste by ex- perience that God is gracious , and that the love of Christ is better than wine , or whatever hath the most grateful relish unto a sensual appetiie ; and this is the only proper foundation of that joy ...
... consist : thus , we taste by ex- perience that God is gracious , and that the love of Christ is better than wine , or whatever hath the most grateful relish unto a sensual appetiie ; and this is the only proper foundation of that joy ...
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... consists in an INORDINATE AFFECTION to the things of this world : this is sinful and ought to be mortified , but it is not absolutely in- consistent with the substance or essence of the grace inquired after . Some who are truly ...
... consists in an INORDINATE AFFECTION to the things of this world : this is sinful and ought to be mortified , but it is not absolutely in- consistent with the substance or essence of the grace inquired after . Some who are truly ...
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... consist ; the exercise of these graces doth compose and refresh the mind , ( even in mourning and godly sorrow for sin there is joy , ) and it prepares and makes the soul meet to receive more supplies of grace from above ; and thus ...
... consist ; the exercise of these graces doth compose and refresh the mind , ( even in mourning and godly sorrow for sin there is joy , ) and it prepares and makes the soul meet to receive more supplies of grace from above ; and thus ...
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... consist ; yea , some approve themselves in those very things and ways which are their temptations . But in the exercise of due watchfulness , prudence , and diligence , men may know the plague of their own heart , the ways by which ...
... consist ; yea , some approve themselves in those very things and ways which are their temptations . But in the exercise of due watchfulness , prudence , and diligence , men may know the plague of their own heart , the ways by which ...
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... plication by faith unto him who is able to succour them that are tempted . Where- fore , ( 3. ) in this consists your great duty respecting temptations ; constantly exer- cise your thoughts on the being Spiritually Minded . 71.
... plication by faith unto him who is able to succour them that are tempted . Where- fore , ( 3. ) in this consists your great duty respecting temptations ; constantly exer- cise your thoughts on the being Spiritually Minded . 71.
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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.