Religious Cases of Conscience: Answered in an Evangelical Manner, at the Casuistical Lecture, in Little St. Helen's, Bishopgate-Street |
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... influences of the Divine Spirit , will occasion and produce a great change in the posture of the animal spirits . So that the case is mu- tual : natural affection may be so blest , as to be an occasion of our receiving spiritual grace ...
... influences of the Divine Spirit , will occasion and produce a great change in the posture of the animal spirits . So that the case is mu- tual : natural affection may be so blest , as to be an occasion of our receiving spiritual grace ...
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... influences are displayed so as to affect us , is it only because we like the subject , the preacher , or his manner ? or is it because we have in our own souls , at that time , a sight and feeling of our need of them , and because we ...
... influences are displayed so as to affect us , is it only because we like the subject , the preacher , or his manner ? or is it because we have in our own souls , at that time , a sight and feeling of our need of them , and because we ...
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... influences of his Spirit ; and so far as I find my experience defective in these particulars , so far I am called upon to humble myself before God for the barrenness and unfruitfulness of my heart in these spiritual duties . " Thus ...
... influences of his Spirit ; and so far as I find my experience defective in these particulars , so far I am called upon to humble myself before God for the barrenness and unfruitfulness of my heart in these spiritual duties . " Thus ...
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... influences of his Spirit from us , the con- sequences of which are loss of communion with him , the with- ering of our graces , and a decline with regard to the life of reli- gion in our souls , we may immediately conclude , that we ...
... influences of his Spirit from us , the con- sequences of which are loss of communion with him , the with- ering of our graces , and a decline with regard to the life of reli- gion in our souls , we may immediately conclude , that we ...
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... to be indulged in it . And , generally speaking , so efficacious is this influence upon the mind , that all arguments and persuasions , all warnings , nay , and the very experience of disadvantages arising from CASES OF CONSCIENCE . 31.
... to be indulged in it . And , generally speaking , so efficacious is this influence upon the mind , that all arguments and persuasions , all warnings , nay , and the very experience of disadvantages arising from CASES OF CONSCIENCE . 31.
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Page 365 - Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved...
Page 147 - O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 323 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 189 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 66 - For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Page 351 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Page 325 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name ; for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Page 167 - Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Page 55 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Page 167 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.