Thoughts on Religious Experience: To which is Added an Appendix Containing "Letters to the Aged," &c. &c |
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... persons least impressed . - Examples of ineffectual impressions . CHAPTER II . Piety in children . - Comparatively few renewed in infancy and childhood . - Soul awakened in different ways . - Legal con- viction not a necessary part of ...
... persons least impressed . - Examples of ineffectual impressions . CHAPTER II . Piety in children . - Comparatively few renewed in infancy and childhood . - Soul awakened in different ways . - Legal con- viction not a necessary part of ...
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... persons least impressed - Examples of ineffectual impressions . THERE is no necessity for any other proof of native depravity , than the aversion , which children early manifest to religious instruction and to spiritual exer- cises ...
... persons least impressed - Examples of ineffectual impressions . THERE is no necessity for any other proof of native depravity , than the aversion , which children early manifest to religious instruction and to spiritual exer- cises ...
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... persons who grow up to manhood without experiencing any reli- gious impressions , except mere momentary thoughts of death , and judgment ; and these may be persons of a very amiable disposition and moral deportment ; and these very ...
... persons who grow up to manhood without experiencing any reli- gious impressions , except mere momentary thoughts of death , and judgment ; and these may be persons of a very amiable disposition and moral deportment ; and these very ...
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... person of sense can bear to attend to it . Very often this high reverie of pleasure is short : in such a world as this ... persons , they are very apt to be delirious , if not with fever , yet with fright ; and their officious but cruel ...
... person of sense can bear to attend to it . Very often this high reverie of pleasure is short : in such a world as this ... persons , they are very apt to be delirious , if not with fever , yet with fright ; and their officious but cruel ...
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... persons sanctified from the womb . If the com- munication of grace ever took place , at so early a period of human existence , there is no reason why it should not now sometimes occur . God says to Jere miah , " Before I formed thee in ...
... persons sanctified from the womb . If the com- munication of grace ever took place , at so early a period of human existence , there is no reason why it should not now sometimes occur . God says to Jere miah , " Before I formed thee in ...
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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.