A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity |
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... qualities re- lieve this gloomy picture , except fortitude , and perseverance , and zeal for the welfare of their little community ; if this last quality , exercised and di - ¬ rected as it was , can be thought deserving of com ...
... qualities re- lieve this gloomy picture , except fortitude , and perseverance , and zeal for the welfare of their little community ; if this last quality , exercised and di - ¬ rected as it was , can be thought deserving of com ...
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... qualities in a being like man , compounded of matter and spirit , and yet denying them in a purely spiritual being , in direct contradiction to the authority of Scripture , which they allow to be conclusive , when they cannot pretend ...
... qualities in a being like man , compounded of matter and spirit , and yet denying them in a purely spiritual being , in direct contradiction to the authority of Scripture , which they allow to be conclusive , when they cannot pretend ...
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... qualities in the abstract , rather than as the perfections and lineaments of our patron and benefactor and friend , “ who loved us , and gave himself for us ; " tof him " who died for our offences , and rose again for our justification ...
... qualities in the abstract , rather than as the perfections and lineaments of our patron and benefactor and friend , “ who loved us , and gave himself for us ; " tof him " who died for our offences , and rose again for our justification ...
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... qualities and original passions of the mind were all given us for valuable purposes by our allwise Creator . It is indeed one of the sad evidences of our fallen condition , that they are now perpetually rebelling against the powers of ...
... qualities and original passions of the mind were all given us for valuable purposes by our allwise Creator . It is indeed one of the sad evidences of our fallen condition , that they are now perpetually rebelling against the powers of ...
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... qualities in one of our common associates . A parent has several children , all constantly under his eye , and equally , dear to him . Yet if any one of them be taken ill , it is brought into so much closer contact than before , that it ...
... qualities in one of our common associates . A parent has several children , all constantly under his eye , and equally , dear to him . Yet if any one of them be taken ill , it is brought into so much closer contact than before , that it ...
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Popular passages
Page 94 - ... that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God...
Page 39 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 206 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 192 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 278 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write ; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars ; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Page 27 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 134 - For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Page 187 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Page 281 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 220 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...