The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Declared & Practically ImprovedJames Nisbet, 1828 - 271 pages |
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... whole work had been republished , it would still have been too expensive for many who want to be instructed in the great duty here inculcated , with which are connected life and peace eternal : these reasons , together with the repeated ...
... whole work had been republished , it would still have been too expensive for many who want to be instructed in the great duty here inculcated , with which are connected life and peace eternal : these reasons , together with the repeated ...
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... - gation ; apprehending also , that the duties set forth and enforced in the whole dis- course , were always seasonable to be de- clared , and urged on the minds of pro- B fessors . Leaving others to choose their own methods ,
... - gation ; apprehending also , that the duties set forth and enforced in the whole dis- course , were always seasonable to be de- clared , and urged on the minds of pro- B fessors . Leaving others to choose their own methods ,
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... whole course of my ministry : to impart those TRUTHS , of whose power I hope to have had a real experience ; and to press those DUTIES , which present temptations , or other circumstances , do render neces- sary and deserving peculiar ...
... whole course of my ministry : to impart those TRUTHS , of whose power I hope to have had a real experience ; and to press those DUTIES , which present temptations , or other circumstances , do render neces- sary and deserving peculiar ...
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... which the 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. ...
... which the 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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... life and phace . " Although the foundation of the whole duty lies in the affections , and their im- mediate adherence to spiritual things ; yet as the THOUGHTS are the first genuine actings of C 2 being Spiritually Minded . 19 CHAP. II. ...
... life and phace . " Although the foundation of the whole duty lies in the affections , and their im- mediate adherence to spiritual things ; yet as the THOUGHTS are the first genuine actings of C 2 being Spiritually Minded . 19 CHAP. II. ...
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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.