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... Conscience of Men in the Old World and in the New confirms this idea of it - The words , ' How dwelleth the Love of God in you ? ' illustrated- Loving in word and tongue ' - How to assure our hearts - The condemnation and acquittal of ...
... Conscience of Men in the Old World and in the New confirms this idea of it - The words , ' How dwelleth the Love of God in you ? ' illustrated- Loving in word and tongue ' - How to assure our hearts - The condemnation and acquittal of ...
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... Conscience , which all men in some sort confess , which those who deny it in their theories bear witness of in their acts and in their habitual language . Some of you will remember what pains have been devoted to this inquiry during the ...
... Conscience , which all men in some sort confess , which those who deny it in their theories bear witness of in their acts and in their habitual language . Some of you will remember what pains have been devoted to this inquiry during the ...
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... conscience , of that reason and will , which we have to do with because we are human beings , and which we must have to do with supposing there were no Scriptures at all . I do not use them because I look upon them as substitutes for ...
... conscience , of that reason and will , which we have to do with because we are human beings , and which we must have to do with supposing there were no Scriptures at all . I do not use them because I look upon them as substitutes for ...
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... conscience and the will . But our Apostle never speaks of the principles of morals apart from the practice of them . He will go out of his way and repeat himself twenty times , rather than let his reader fancy that he has been listening ...
... conscience and the will . But our Apostle never speaks of the principles of morals apart from the practice of them . He will go out of his way and repeat himself twenty times , rather than let his reader fancy that he has been listening ...
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... consciences .. We thrust away that Word which is shedding abroad His light in us ; we bury ourselves in our own darkness . This is the effect of trying to make out a good case for ourselves , when it is our interest , our pri- vilege ...
... consciences .. We thrust away that Word which is shedding abroad His light in us ; we bury ourselves in our own darkness . This is the effect of trying to make out a good case for ourselves , when it is our interest , our pri- vilege ...
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Page 184 - He that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Page 269 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood; and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Page 123 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 134 - Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Page 134 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us ; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 260 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Page 87 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 168 - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God : therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God...
Page 316 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed ; for he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 266 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater : for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.