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... faith and practice in the Christian world . " The charge of enthusiasm from men of Gibbon's avowed principles , requires no attempt at confutation . A writer under the signature of Christophilus , in Lloyd's Evening Post , in the year ...
... faith and practice in the Christian world . " The charge of enthusiasm from men of Gibbon's avowed principles , requires no attempt at confutation . A writer under the signature of Christophilus , in Lloyd's Evening Post , in the year ...
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... faith ; against the numberless number of flagrant sinners and hypocrit- ical , false saints , which every where divide a fallen Christendom . ” His Address to the Clergy was his last work , hav- ing been finished just prior to his death ...
... faith ; against the numberless number of flagrant sinners and hypocrit- ical , false saints , which every where divide a fallen Christendom . ” His Address to the Clergy was his last work , hav- ing been finished just prior to his death ...
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... 16. Of Justification by Faith and Works ; a Dia- logue between a Methodist and a Churchman , 8vo . 17. An humble , earnest , and affectionate Address to the Clergy , 8vo . ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY . • THE reason of my 8.
... 16. Of Justification by Faith and Works ; a Dia- logue between a Methodist and a Churchman , 8vo . 17. An humble , earnest , and affectionate Address to the Clergy , 8vo . ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY . • THE reason of my 8.
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... faith , hope , love , and resignation to God , are in the religious life , its acts of respiration , which so long as they are true , unite God and the creature , in the same living , and essential manner , as animal respiration unites ...
... faith , hope , love , and resignation to God , are in the religious life , its acts of respiration , which so long as they are true , unite God and the creature , in the same living , and essential manner , as animal respiration unites ...
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... faith , love , and desire towards God , but because a living seed of these divine affections , was by the Spirit of God first begotten in it . And as a tree , or plant , can only grow and fruc- tify , by the same power that first gave ...
... faith , love , and desire towards God , but because a living seed of these divine affections , was by the Spirit of God first begotten in it . And as a tree , or plant , can only grow and fruc- tify , by the same power that first gave ...
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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.