The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... to a judicious reader , must be tedious and un- pleasant . The Editor hath therefore taken the liberty of omitting what ap- peared to be redundant , of transposing some passages , of reducing the numbers of chapters , PREFACE . vii.
... to a judicious reader , must be tedious and un- pleasant . The Editor hath therefore taken the liberty of omitting what ap- peared to be redundant , of transposing some passages , of reducing the numbers of chapters , PREFACE . vii.
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... hath been omitted ; that the Author's real sentiments are preserved , and it is hoped his spirit also . To recal Christian professors to that strict mortification , to that separation from the world and its sinful customs , to that ...
... hath been omitted ; that the Author's real sentiments are preserved , and it is hoped his spirit also . To recal Christian professors to that strict mortification , to that separation from the world and its sinful customs , to that ...
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... hath , as it were , transformed the mind into its own image and likeness , and when such persons , or any who are full of earthly affections , at- tend to or perform spiritual duties , it must be very difficult , if not impossible , for ...
... hath , as it were , transformed the mind into its own image and likeness , and when such persons , or any who are full of earthly affections , at- tend to or perform spiritual duties , it must be very difficult , if not impossible , for ...
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... hath these two advan- tages - it is seasonable , and sincerely in- tended ; nay , should this be its only suc- cess - to provoke others possessed of more time and greater abilities , to oppose the vehement and too successful ...
... hath these two advan- tages - it is seasonable , and sincerely in- tended ; nay , should this be its only suc- cess - to provoke others possessed of more time and greater abilities , to oppose the vehement and too successful ...
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... emphasis of the original , and the design of the apostle , can be better expressed . The whole verse hath two proposi- tions , containing a double antithesis ; one in their subjects , the other in their pre- dicates CHAPTER I. ...
... emphasis of the original , and the design of the apostle , can be better expressed . The whole verse hath two proposi- tions , containing a double antithesis ; one in their subjects , the other in their pre- dicates CHAPTER I. ...
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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.