Thoughts on Religious Experience: To which is Added an Appendix Containing "Letters to the Aged," &c. &c |
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... gracious promise to such saints as live many years , " that they shall still bring forth fruit in old age . " Psa . xcii . 14 . A. A. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE . CHAPTER I. Early religious impressions --- Different 12 ADVERTISEMENT .
... gracious promise to such saints as live many years , " that they shall still bring forth fruit in old age . " Psa . xcii . 14 . A. A. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE . CHAPTER I. Early religious impressions --- Different 12 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... bring forward to maturity , feelings and convictions , which have been long secretly forming and growing within the soul , but so imperceptibly , that the person himself was little sensible of any change . It may be justly and ...
... bring forward to maturity , feelings and convictions , which have been long secretly forming and growing within the soul , but so imperceptibly , that the person himself was little sensible of any change . It may be justly and ...
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... bring the corrupt heart into a right state . The case now begins to appear despe- rate , and the sinner knows not which way to turn for relief , and , to cap the climax of his distress , he comes at length to be conscious of nothing but ...
... bring the corrupt heart into a right state . The case now begins to appear despe- rate , and the sinner knows not which way to turn for relief , and , to cap the climax of his distress , he comes at length to be conscious of nothing but ...
Page 45
... bring out such crude and ludicrous things , as greatly tend to bring experimental religion into discredit . The prac- tice seems also to be founded on a false principle , namely , that real Christians are able to tell with cer- tainty ...
... bring out such crude and ludicrous things , as greatly tend to bring experimental religion into discredit . The prac- tice seems also to be founded on a false principle , namely , that real Christians are able to tell with cer- tainty ...
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... told that , if they will hold on praying and using the means , God is bound to save them ; as though a dead , con- demned sinner could so pray as to bring God under obligation to him , or could secure the blessings of 46 THOUGHTS ON.
... told that , if they will hold on praying and using the means , God is bound to save them ; as though a dead , con- demned sinner could so pray as to bring God under obligation to him , or could secure the blessings of 46 THOUGHTS ON.
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Page 299 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Page 316 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 283 - Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven...
Page 316 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 355 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Page 109 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 299 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 357 - Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 293 - Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death ; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well.
Page 330 - ... the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea.