The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... relief , the one respecting the moral evil of these thoughts , the other their natural abundance . The first , by throwing salt into the spring , as Elisha cured the waters of Jericho ; get the mind seasoned with grace , for the tree ...
... relief , the one respecting the moral evil of these thoughts , the other their natural abundance . The first , by throwing salt into the spring , as Elisha cured the waters of Jericho ; get the mind seasoned with grace , for the tree ...
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... relief , exercise your thoughts chiefly about the ways of deliverance from the snares . Think of the GUILT OF SIN , that you may be humbled - think of the POWER F 2 being Spiritually Minded . 67 sin, and have been ensnared by the oc- ...
... relief , exercise your thoughts chiefly about the ways of deliverance from the snares . Think of the GUILT OF SIN , that you may be humbled - think of the POWER F 2 being Spiritually Minded . 67 sin, and have been ensnared by the oc- ...
Page 68
... relief in the season of temptation , as it is pointed out , Heb . ii . 17 , 18. and chap . iv . 15 , 16 . The only way for deliverance , is , by acting faith in thoughts on Christ , and his power to succour them that are tempted . I ...
... relief in the season of temptation , as it is pointed out , Heb . ii . 17 , 18. and chap . iv . 15 , 16 . The only way for deliverance , is , by acting faith in thoughts on Christ , and his power to succour them that are tempted . I ...
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... relief , without ap- 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 ...
... relief , without ap- 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 ...
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... relief than we do ; if upon the incursion of fears , dangers , and sorrows , we did more readily retreat to thoughts of that state where we shall be freed from all . But there is that which to the spi- ritually minded hath more evil in ...
... relief than we do ; if upon the incursion of fears , dangers , and sorrows , we did more readily retreat to thoughts of that state where we shall be freed from all . But there is that which to the spi- ritually minded hath more evil in ...
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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.