Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... vigilant loving- kindness of our Covenant God with a more special distinctness than the heavier afflictions with which He , at times , sees it needful to visit us . The history of one day's petty trials , set before us , in the light of ...
... vigilant loving- kindness of our Covenant God with a more special distinctness than the heavier afflictions with which He , at times , sees it needful to visit us . The history of one day's petty trials , set before us , in the light of ...
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... vigilance exercised against temptations , and in endeavours after greater conformity of our own will to the will of God . If the system were tried , of directing all our watchfulness , for a given time , towards the temptations to which ...
... vigilance exercised against temptations , and in endeavours after greater conformity of our own will to the will of God . If the system were tried , of directing all our watchfulness , for a given time , towards the temptations to which ...
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... vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen self - scrutiny upon every other point , as well as that which is kept principally in view . One of the great objects to be ...
... vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen self - scrutiny upon every other point , as well as that which is kept principally in view . One of the great objects to be ...
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... vigilance and self - examination regarding each of the sins about to be enumerated , - Self- will , Pride , Vanity , Discontent , Selfish- ness , Self - indulgence , Worldliness . These have been selected , as most likely to be the ...
... vigilance and self - examination regarding each of the sins about to be enumerated , - Self- will , Pride , Vanity , Discontent , Selfish- ness , Self - indulgence , Worldliness . These have been selected , as most likely to be the ...
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... vigilant watchful- ness and self - examination as to the plea- sures you expect from it . If they should prove to be the display of your own per- sonal or intellectual advantages , and the homage rendered them by others , then the scene ...
... vigilant watchful- ness and self - examination as to the plea- sures you expect from it . If they should prove to be the display of your own per- sonal or intellectual advantages , and the homage rendered them by others , then the scene ...
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.