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Page 48
... secret of all this ? It is nothing more than the detection of the spirit of disobe- dience , which always dwelt in them , but till then had not betrayed itself . The whole character is told in a single act ; and the less important the ...
... secret of all this ? It is nothing more than the detection of the spirit of disobe- dience , which always dwelt in them , but till then had not betrayed itself . The whole character is told in a single act ; and the less important the ...
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... secrets of suffer- ing into which not only the rich and soft , but even the charitable and pitiful , can never enter , except by self - denials , of which fasting is an ex- ample and a pledge . 3. And this leads us to the last point ...
... secrets of suffer- ing into which not only the rich and soft , but even the charitable and pitiful , can never enter , except by self - denials , of which fasting is an ex- ample and a pledge . 3. And this leads us to the last point ...
Page 72
... be the cast of character which is seldom , if ever , formed without an habi- tual exercise of secret humiliation . All that we perceive of sympathy and gentleness is the result of contrition 72 [ SERM . FASTING A MEANS TO.
... be the cast of character which is seldom , if ever , formed without an habi- tual exercise of secret humiliation . All that we perceive of sympathy and gentleness is the result of contrition 72 [ SERM . FASTING A MEANS TO.
Page 73
... secret a discipline of self - chastise- ment ; and all attempts at such discipline will be found , sooner or later , to be most imperfect , and indeed all but in vain , unless they are ordered on the rule which is here given by the ...
... secret a discipline of self - chastise- ment ; and all attempts at such discipline will be found , sooner or later , to be most imperfect , and indeed all but in vain , unless they are ordered on the rule which is here given by the ...
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... secret . " There are few that can stand being noticed , without suffering in the purity of their intention . Howsoever well they may have begun , secondary motives insinuate themselves with a strange subtilty . The comments of others ...
... secret . " There are few that can stand being noticed , without suffering in the purity of their intention . Howsoever well they may have begun , secondary motives insinuate themselves with a strange subtilty . The comments of others ...
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Page 64 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 382 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery ; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned : but what sayest 40 thou ? This they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
Page 2 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man ; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and Man of the substance of his mother, born in the world ; perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Fattier, as touching his Godhead ; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Page 42 - And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 204 - And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page ix - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He hath a devil.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 194 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like! unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 381 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment...
Page 203 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Page 326 - And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.