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... pride charged upon this pretended enthusiasm , it is the same absurdity.- Christ saith , Without me ye can do nothing ; the same as if he had said , As to yourselves , and all that can be called your own , ye are mere helpless sin and ...
... pride charged upon this pretended enthusiasm , it is the same absurdity.- Christ saith , Without me ye can do nothing ; the same as if he had said , As to yourselves , and all that can be called your own , ye are mere helpless sin and ...
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... pride of him , who fully acknowledges , that he neither hath , nor can have the least spark , or breathing after goodness , but what is freely kindled or breathed into him by the Spirit of God . Again , if it is spiritual pride to ...
... pride of him , who fully acknowledges , that he neither hath , nor can have the least spark , or breathing after goodness , but what is freely kindled or breathed into him by the Spirit of God . Again , if it is spiritual pride to ...
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... pride in their own definitions , and doc trines of words , will by degrees creep up to the same height , and become that same fleshly wisdom , doing those very same things , which they exclaim against in Popes , Cardinals and Jesuits ...
... pride in their own definitions , and doc trines of words , will by degrees creep up to the same height , and become that same fleshly wisdom , doing those very same things , which they exclaim against in Popes , Cardinals and Jesuits ...
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... pride , and vanity of every kind . There is no middle way between these two ; he that is not under the power of the one , is under the power of the other . And the reason is , man was created in and under the power of the divine life ...
... pride , and vanity of every kind . There is no middle way between these two ; he that is not under the power of the one , is under the power of the other . And the reason is , man was created in and under the power of the divine life ...
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... pride , and fleshly lusts have prospered by it , or because Sa- tan has often led people into all the heights of self- glory , and self - seeking , under a pretence of being in- spired with gospel humility , and gospel self - denial ...
... pride , and fleshly lusts have prospered by it , or because Sa- tan has often led people into all the heights of self- glory , and self - seeking , under a pretence of being in- spired with gospel humility , and gospel self - denial ...
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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.