The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... ourselves , and not from outward occasions ; and , II . That they abound and abide in us , our minds being filled with them . I. The thoughts that display and evi- dence the true state of the mind , are such as are NATURAL , arising ...
... ourselves , and not from outward occasions ; and , II . That they abound and abide in us , our minds being filled with them . I. The thoughts that display and evi- dence the true state of the mind , are such as are NATURAL , arising ...
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... ourselves : wherever this is , there is no due sense either of the greatness or goodness of God . ( 2. ) It is a sure evidence that our thoughts of spiritual things in prayer , are from an internal gracious spring , and not merely ...
... ourselves : wherever this is , there is no due sense either of the greatness or goodness of God . ( 2. ) It is a sure evidence that our thoughts of spiritual things in prayer , are from an internal gracious spring , and not merely ...
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... ourselves , and not merely from outward occasions ; I come to the II . Essential characteristic , or evidence that our thoughts proceed from an inter- nal spiritual fountain , which is , “ That they abound and abide in us , " our minds ...
... ourselves , and not merely from outward occasions ; I come to the II . Essential characteristic , or evidence that our thoughts proceed from an inter- nal spiritual fountain , which is , “ That they abound and abide in us , " our minds ...
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... ourselves in this matter , I shall add a few rules to the general direction . 1. Consider , what proportion your thoughts of spiritual things bears with those of other concerns . Our principal interest and concern , according to our ...
... ourselves in this matter , I shall add a few rules to the general direction . 1. Consider , what proportion your thoughts of spiritual things bears with those of other concerns . Our principal interest and concern , according to our ...
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... often about heavenly things , as they do about the lawful affairs of their calling ? I say , more , and oftener , if we are what we profess ourselves to be : by profession it we are bound for heaven and glory , but 52 The Grace and Duty of.
... often about heavenly things , as they do about the lawful affairs of their calling ? I say , more , and oftener , if we are what we profess ourselves to be : by profession it we are bound for heaven and glory , but 52 The Grace and Duty of.
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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.