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... Truth above sectarian distinctions - It would also enable us to rejoice in the useful prosperity of all - It would influence the ordinary intercourse of Christians - Connexion between Pastor and people under the same control - The glory ...
... Truth above sectarian distinctions - It would also enable us to rejoice in the useful prosperity of all - It would influence the ordinary intercourse of Christians - Connexion between Pastor and people under the same control - The glory ...
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... truth they reveal , and the effects which they attribute to its power , ought entirely and for ever to put an end to all doubt as to the necessity of cor- rect apprehensions , and the desirableness of well- defined views , of its ...
... truth they reveal , and the effects which they attribute to its power , ought entirely and for ever to put an end to all doubt as to the necessity of cor- rect apprehensions , and the desirableness of well- defined views , of its ...
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... truth to affect us , but through our appre- hension and belief of it ? It does not act magically or mystically . Its agency is purely rational , and it will influence us in the manner and in the degree answering to our views of its ...
... truth to affect us , but through our appre- hension and belief of it ? It does not act magically or mystically . Its agency is purely rational , and it will influence us in the manner and in the degree answering to our views of its ...
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... truth - a truth most destructive of self - delusion and false reli- gion - the deficiency of mere interested love to God- he overstrained it . It snapped in his hand , and hangs , like the broken bow of a giant , in the theolo- gical ...
... truth - a truth most destructive of self - delusion and false reli- gion - the deficiency of mere interested love to God- he overstrained it . It snapped in his hand , and hangs , like the broken bow of a giant , in the theolo- gical ...
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... truth , their artless working , their strength and majesty , their stern necessity ; how calculated to raise uneasiness , to excite enquiry , to induce salutary conclusions and alarming forebodings respecting himself . " Qualities ...
... truth , their artless working , their strength and majesty , their stern necessity ; how calculated to raise uneasiness , to excite enquiry , to induce salutary conclusions and alarming forebodings respecting himself . " Qualities ...
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Page 69 - Spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 173 - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 94 - To the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 85 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness. sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 133 - One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 93 - And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons...
Page 132 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 160 - I have overcome the world. [These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said] : — Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee : as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Page 197 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 131 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus : that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.