The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 2James Duncan, 1825 - Theology |
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... receive of his fulness grace for grace . The love of Christ makes the soul delight to converse with Him ; and con- verse and love together , make it learn His behaviour ; as men that live much together , especially if they do much 12 A ...
... receive of his fulness grace for grace . The love of Christ makes the soul delight to converse with Him ; and con- verse and love together , make it learn His behaviour ; as men that live much together , especially if they do much 12 A ...
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... receive satisfaction , and they salvation , in their Head , Christ . The execution of that purpose and union , began in Christ's incarnation , it being for them , though the nature he assumed is theirs in common with other men . It is ...
... receive satisfaction , and they salvation , in their Head , Christ . The execution of that purpose and union , began in Christ's incarnation , it being for them , though the nature he assumed is theirs in common with other men . It is ...
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... receive the wound : so the hypocrite in some exter- nals , and it may be , in that which is as near him as any out- ward thing , his purse , may suffer some bloodshed of that for Christ . But this death to sin is not a swooning fit ...
... receive the wound : so the hypocrite in some exter- nals , and it may be , in that which is as near him as any out- ward thing , his purse , may suffer some bloodshed of that for Christ . But this death to sin is not a swooning fit ...
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... received the impression of the wounds of Christ in their body , is true , in a spiritual sense , of the soul of every one that is indeed a saint and a believer : it takes the very print of his death , by beholding him , and dies to sin ...
... received the impression of the wounds of Christ in their body , is true , in a spiritual sense , of the soul of every one that is indeed a saint and a believer : it takes the very print of his death , by beholding him , and dies to sin ...
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... receive from without , by the temptations of Satan and the world ! We entertain them , and by weapons with which they furnish us , we willingly wound ourselves ; as the Apostle says of them who will be rich , they fall into divers ...
... receive from without , by the temptations of Satan and the world ! We entertain them , and by weapons with which they furnish us , we willingly wound ourselves ; as the Apostle says of them who will be rich , they fall into divers ...
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Page 98 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 343 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 317 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 199 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 233 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 493 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 378 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
Page 574 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 611 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 539 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.