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... brings forth , an essential union , and communion of the spirit of the creature , with the spirit of the Creator , God in it , and it in God , one life , one light , one love . The spirit of God first gives , or sows the seed of divine ...
... brings forth , an essential union , and communion of the spirit of the creature , with the spirit of the Creator , God in it , and it in God , one life , one light , one love . The spirit of God first gives , or sows the seed of divine ...
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... brings forth , and keeps up an essential union of the spirit of man with the spirit of God ; which essential union cannot be made , but through love on both sides , nor by love , but where the love that works on both sides is of the ...
... brings forth , and keeps up an essential union of the spirit of man with the spirit of God ; which essential union cannot be made , but through love on both sides , nor by love , but where the love that works on both sides is of the ...
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... bring forth again in man a true and full birth of that holy Spirit , which he had at first , then it must be plain , that the work of this dispensation must be solely , and immediately the work of the holy Spirit . For if man could no ...
... bring forth again in man a true and full birth of that holy Spirit , which he had at first , then it must be plain , that the work of this dispensation must be solely , and immediately the work of the holy Spirit . For if man could no ...
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... brings man to that dwelling in God , and God in him , which he had at the beginning . 2dly . That as not the Apostles , so no man from their time to the end of the world , can have any true and real knowledge of the spiritual blessings ...
... brings man to that dwelling in God , and God in him , which he had at the beginning . 2dly . That as not the Apostles , so no man from their time to the end of the world , can have any true and real knowledge of the spiritual blessings ...
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... bring forth the renewed state of the soul , are not creaturely , finite , outward things , that may be found and enjoyed by verbal descriptions , or formed ideas of them , but are a birth , and life , and spiritual operation , which as ...
... bring forth the renewed state of the soul , are not creaturely , finite , outward things , that may be found and enjoyed by verbal descriptions , or formed ideas of them , but are a birth , and life , and spiritual operation , which as ...
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Page 39 - O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee ; mercifully grant that thy HOLY SPIRIT may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 93 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Page 130 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Page 130 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 60 - And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Page 100 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 123 - But when he had turned about, and looked on his disciples, he "rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, 'Satan ; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 6 - His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian world.
Page 89 - God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength...
Page 8 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental errors of a late book, called, A plain account of the nature and end of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.