Religious Cases of Conscience: Answered in an Evangelical Manner, at the Casuistical Lecture, in Little St. Helen's, Bishopgate-Street |
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... neglect closet or private prayer ? Quest , 30. Which is the best way to cure lukewarmness and trifling indifference in closet prayer ? Quest . 25. What is the true idea , or the most general and direct intention of the term grace in ...
... neglect closet or private prayer ? Quest , 30. Which is the best way to cure lukewarmness and trifling indifference in closet prayer ? Quest . 25. What is the true idea , or the most general and direct intention of the term grace in ...
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... neglect of duty , or formality in it . is in . 2. We should esteem it a mercy , if , when under a decline , we are earnestly desirous of a revival . This appears to be the case with you , my friend . Methinks I see you viewing former ...
... neglect of duty , or formality in it . is in . 2. We should esteem it a mercy , if , when under a decline , we are earnestly desirous of a revival . This appears to be the case with you , my friend . Methinks I see you viewing former ...
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... neglect of some important duties of religion , in the suitable discharge of which , the divine life is kept up in the soul . Thus it is difficult for those , who have much to do with the world to grow in grace . I mention this to ...
... neglect of some important duties of religion , in the suitable discharge of which , the divine life is kept up in the soul . Thus it is difficult for those , who have much to do with the world to grow in grace . I mention this to ...
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... neglect those duties , in which Christians meet with God , and by which they find their souls enlivened . Every duty is beautiful in its season . There is a time to mind the world , and a time to attend to the affairs of the soul . To ...
... neglect those duties , in which Christians meet with God , and by which they find their souls enlivened . Every duty is beautiful in its season . There is a time to mind the world , and a time to attend to the affairs of the soul . To ...
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... neglected . And how is it with the closet ? That has seldom an evening visit . You have no time to look into your soul , to mourn over the sins of the day , or to call over its mercies ; no time for reading or medi- tation . One neglect ...
... neglected . And how is it with the closet ? That has seldom an evening visit . You have no time to look into your soul , to mourn over the sins of the day , or to call over its mercies ; no time for reading or medi- tation . One neglect ...
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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.