The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... was the original design of this work ; and that these happy fruits may attend this abridgment of it , is the Editor's desire , and shall be his daily prayer . THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . I THINK it necessary to give viii PREFACE .
... was the original design of this work ; and that these happy fruits may attend this abridgment of it , is the Editor's desire , and shall be his daily prayer . THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . I THINK it necessary to give viii PREFACE .
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... prayer , know not at all what it is to pray . All sorts of professors have frequent occasion to join with others in prayer , and many are con- vinced it is their own duty to pray every day , both in their families and otherwise : now it ...
... prayer , know not at all what it is to pray . All sorts of professors have frequent occasion to join with others in prayer , and many are con- vinced it is their own duty to pray every day , both in their families and otherwise : now it ...
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... prayer that expresseth spiritual things , and yet never have one spiritual thought arise in his mind about them ; for there is no exercise of any faculty of the mind requisite unto such reading , but only to attend unto the words that ...
... prayer that expresseth spiritual things , and yet never have one spiritual thought arise in his mind about them ; for there is no exercise of any faculty of the mind requisite unto such reading , but only to attend unto the words that ...
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... prayer , do arise from gifts only , or are influenced from a living genuine principle in our hearts ? A case this of great importance , and which 1 shall endeavour briefly to resolve . It is an ancient and true complaint , that ...
... prayer , do arise from gifts only , or are influenced from a living genuine principle in our hearts ? A case this of great importance , and which 1 shall endeavour briefly to resolve . It is an ancient and true complaint , that ...
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... prayers unto God , that he would search and try them , and discover to them the true frame of their hearts ; I no way doubt but they would soon come to assured satisfaction , whether their spiritual thoughts in prayer proceed from an ...
... prayers unto God , that he would search and try them , and discover to them the true frame of their hearts ; I no way doubt but they would soon come to assured satisfaction , whether their spiritual thoughts in prayer proceed from an ...
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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.