A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian politics, (or duties to our rulers and neighboursRichard Edwards, 1825 - Christian life |
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... doubt whether the matter imposed be law- ful ? Of Vowing with a doubting conscience . Tit . 2. Directions against Perjury and Perfidiousness ; and for keeping Vows and Oaths . The heinousness of Perjury . Thirty - six Rules about the ...
... doubt whether the matter imposed be law- ful ? Of Vowing with a doubting conscience . Tit . 2. Directions against Perjury and Perfidiousness ; and for keeping Vows and Oaths . The heinousness of Perjury . Thirty - six Rules about the ...
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... doubts , and guide you in the way that is pleasing to him . But if you omit the duty that all are agreed on , and be unfaithful and negligent in what you know , how un- meet are you to dispute about the controverted circum- stances of ...
... doubts , and guide you in the way that is pleasing to him . But if you omit the duty that all are agreed on , and be unfaithful and negligent in what you know , how un- meet are you to dispute about the controverted circum- stances of ...
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... doubt may necessitate you to suspend your practice , as your belief or judgment is sus- pended ; when yet it will not allow you to condemn another whose judgment and practice hath no such suspension . On- ly you may doubt whether he be ...
... doubt may necessitate you to suspend your practice , as your belief or judgment is sus- pended ; when yet it will not allow you to condemn another whose judgment and practice hath no such suspension . On- ly you may doubt whether he be ...
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... doubt but Christ is the only universal head and law - giver to his church ; and that legislation is the first and principal part of government ; and therefore if he had made no laws for his church , he were not the full governor of it ...
... doubt but Christ is the only universal head and law - giver to his church ; and that legislation is the first and principal part of government ; and therefore if he had made no laws for his church , he were not the full governor of it ...
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... doubt arise , whether thou shouldst now make profession of the truth , ( as in the presence of scorners , or when required by magistrates or others , & c . ) let not the advice or interest of the flesh have any hand at all in the ...
... doubt arise , whether thou shouldst now make profession of the truth , ( as in the presence of scorners , or when required by magistrates or others , & c . ) let not the advice or interest of the flesh have any hand at all in the ...
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Page 348 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 229 - And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Page 137 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding — if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, — then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God..
Page 49 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 437 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying; Alleluia! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Page 170 - Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Page 49 - Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Page 170 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 349 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 141 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.