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... acted upon , by a professedly Chris- tian church , in their own legitimate spirit , they must be sanctioned by the blessing of God , accomplish the end for which they are given , and lead , as a consequence , to the spiritual life and ...
... acted upon , by a professedly Chris- tian church , in their own legitimate spirit , they must be sanctioned by the blessing of God , accomplish the end for which they are given , and lead , as a consequence , to the spiritual life and ...
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... acted upon by all . The hands which have built our Zion , in its material and external form , are the laborious hands of her faithful sons . Let candid and honest men determine whether the motive has proceeded from a spirit of ...
... acted upon by all . The hands which have built our Zion , in its material and external form , are the laborious hands of her faithful sons . Let candid and honest men determine whether the motive has proceeded from a spirit of ...
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... acted in all their movements : economical arrangements were only considered as secondary to this . Theoretical and political Christians have invariably reversed this order ; and have propounded their platform as the first in time , in ...
... acted in all their movements : economical arrangements were only considered as secondary to this . Theoretical and political Christians have invariably reversed this order ; and have propounded their platform as the first in time , in ...
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... acted . Their object was one - to save souls from eternal misery . When this presented itself , in all its vividness , to their believing and ardent minds , they did not " confer with flesh and blood , " court the countenance of the ...
... acted . Their object was one - to save souls from eternal misery . When this presented itself , in all its vividness , to their believing and ardent minds , they did not " confer with flesh and blood , " court the countenance of the ...
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... acted upon by the people , fatal to true religion . But in the true sense of receiving grace and blessing , how shall we ascertain the fact ? Just in the same way as we ascer- tain any other fact regarding the divine life , -by ...
... acted upon by the people , fatal to true religion . But in the true sense of receiving grace and blessing , how shall we ascertain the fact ? Just in the same way as we ascer- tain any other fact regarding the divine life , -by ...
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Page 11 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 99 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 91 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Page 104 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 12 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 119 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 97 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 11 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 12 - He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 97 - ALL THINGS, YEA, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. FOR WHAT MAN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF A MAN, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF MAN,. WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO THE THINGS OF GOD KNOWETH NO MAN, BUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD.