The Advancement of Religion: The Claim of the Times |
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Page 181 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 223 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Page 229 - There is a great deal in the world that is delightful and beautiful ; there is a great deal in it that is great and engrossing ; but it will not last. All that is in the world, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, are but for a little while, Love not the world therefore.
Page 297 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 297 - Say not that the world opposes itself to these designs of mercy, for " as I live, saith the Lord, all the earth shall be filled with my glory...
Page 97 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 303 - X of the sixth trumpet serves as heralds to announce, that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ.
Page 21 - Whom have I in heaven but thee 1 And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart f aileth : //'••' God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 14 - Religion then, as we have to regard it, is not various, but one. It is not a form, or a ritual, or a creed, or a catechism ; but the life of truth and of God in the soul of man. It divides nothing with false religions ; and it knows nothing of the divisions which men have sought to fasten on the true. It knows nothing of Arminius, or of Calvin, or of Luther. It is not of Paul, or of Apollos, or of Peter. It is not from Jerusalem, or Rome, or Oxford. It is from heaven ; it is one. In the Bible it...
Page 6 - ... enlightened and useful Christian. The object and aim of the writer is not a selfish one, but it is to do good. He takes a wide range, and yet having read the work the attentive reader will find that the substance of it is easily remembered. If our churches and our ministers would possess themselves of its principles and imbibe its spirit, they would have less cause to lament the decay of vital godliness, either in their own hearts, their families, or their congregations. "The publisher deserves...