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Page xvii
... professing Christians . It is as much their duty to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ , and to confess him before the world , as it is the duty of those who have already believed and confessed . The only difference is , that the latter ...
... professing Christians . It is as much their duty to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ , and to confess him before the world , as it is the duty of those who have already believed and confessed . The only difference is , that the latter ...
Page xviii
... professing , and showing the benefits which it secures to the believer . The DUTY of making a public profession of Christianity is manifest , first , from the fact that Christ has commanded it . Were there no other reason to be assigned ...
... professing , and showing the benefits which it secures to the believer . The DUTY of making a public profession of Christianity is manifest , first , from the fact that Christ has commanded it . Were there no other reason to be assigned ...
Page xxiii
... professing re- ligion should not be invested with terror . Not unfrequently the most timid are the most wor- thy . Such are often afraid that they are unwor- thy ; afraid they shall profess more than they possess INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... professing re- ligion should not be invested with terror . Not unfrequently the most timid are the most wor- thy . Such are often afraid that they are unwor- thy ; afraid they shall profess more than they possess INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
Page xxiv
... professing any merit whatever . It is saying , " God be merciful to me a sinner . " It is confessing and pleading , with a penitential sense of ill desert , - " Father , I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight , and am no more ...
... professing any merit whatever . It is saying , " God be merciful to me a sinner . " It is confessing and pleading , with a penitential sense of ill desert , - " Father , I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight , and am no more ...
Page xxv
... professing , is signifying that we fly to the blood of the ever- lasting covenant for the remission of our sins , to " lay hold upon the hope set before us . " It is say- ing to the world that , finding ourselves to be strangers and ...
... professing , is signifying that we fly to the blood of the ever- lasting covenant for the remission of our sins , to " lay hold upon the hope set before us . " It is say- ing to the world that , finding ourselves to be strangers and ...
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Page 64 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Page 116 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Page 146 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble ; every man's work shall be made manifest : for the day shall declare it. because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 157 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 78 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 157 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 23 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Page ix - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Page 88 - Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Page 91 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.