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... trust Him . By trusting Him we are delivered from the suspicion which is the very essence of sin . ' It is plain simple teaching this ; that a man throws off the burden of his sins by confessing them ; and that he 6 may confess to God ...
... trust Him . By trusting Him we are delivered from the suspicion which is the very essence of sin . ' It is plain simple teaching this ; that a man throws off the burden of his sins by confessing them ; and that he 6 may confess to God ...
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... trust to ' the High Priest of Jerusalem , and to the sacrifices which ' he offers according to the law . ' But though both heathens and Jews might have used this language , I am certain that no heathen and no Jew would have found what ...
... trust to ' the High Priest of Jerusalem , and to the sacrifices which ' he offers according to the law . ' But though both heathens and Jews might have used this language , I am certain that no heathen and no Jew would have found what ...
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... trust and daily self - renunciation , as He lived . And since they could not do this by any efforts of their own since all their efforts only showed them their own weakness - they learned to abide in Him ; they learned the deepest of ...
... trust and daily self - renunciation , as He lived . And since they could not do this by any efforts of their own since all their efforts only showed them their own weakness - they learned to abide in Him ; they learned the deepest of ...
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... trusts Him . And doing so , it never can become lazy . It has found its centre , and ' therefore it can move without irregularity . It has found ' Him by whom its powers of life are continually re- ' newed ; therefore it can move ...
... trusts Him . And doing so , it never can become lazy . It has found its centre , and ' therefore it can move without irregularity . It has found ' Him by whom its powers of life are continually re- ' newed ; therefore it can move ...
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... right way . Thou shalt not ' meant , ' Trust in me , and I will not suffer thee to go astray . ' And this covenant included the child of eight days old , JEWISH ORDINANCES . 103 who as yet could read no 102 LECTURE VII .
... right way . Thou shalt not ' meant , ' Trust in me , and I will not suffer thee to go astray . ' And this covenant included the child of eight days old , JEWISH ORDINANCES . 103 who as yet could read no 102 LECTURE VII .
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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.