The Christian Monitor, Volume 3Munroe and Francis, 1807 - Christian life |
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... happiest thing in the world . So that we must not look upon ourselves in a state of common and pardonable imperfection , but in such a state , as wants the first and most funda- mental principle of christianity , namely , an in- tention ...
... happiest thing in the world . So that we must not look upon ourselves in a state of common and pardonable imperfection , but in such a state , as wants the first and most funda- mental principle of christianity , namely , an in- tention ...
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... happiness , as the great apostle St. Paul was , when he thus wrote to the Philippians ; Not as though I had already attained , either were already per fect ; but this one thing I do , forgetting those things , which are behind , and ...
... happiness , as the great apostle St. Paul was , when he thus wrote to the Philippians ; Not as though I had already attained , either were already per fect ; but this one thing I do , forgetting those things , which are behind , and ...
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... happiest use of this short life . She depends upon the truth of what our blessed Lord has said , that there is but one thing needful ; ' and therefore makes her whole life but one continual labour after it . She has but one reason for ...
... happiest use of this short life . She depends upon the truth of what our blessed Lord has said , that there is but one thing needful ; ' and therefore makes her whole life but one continual labour after it . She has but one reason for ...
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... happiness in heaven hereafter . Thus in all orders and conditions , either of men or women , this is the one common holi- ness , which is to be the common life of all chris- tians . CHAP . X. Devotion affords us the greatest enjoyments ...
... happiness in heaven hereafter . Thus in all orders and conditions , either of men or women , this is the one common holi- ness , which is to be the common life of all chris- tians . CHAP . X. Devotion affords us the greatest enjoyments ...
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... happiness of a sound mind . Secondly . That as there is no foundation for comfort in the enjoyments of this life , but in the assurance , that a wise and good God governs the world ; so the more we find out God in every thing , the more ...
... happiness of a sound mind . Secondly . That as there is no foundation for comfort in the enjoyments of this life , but in the assurance , that a wise and good God governs the world ; so the more we find out God in every thing , the more ...
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