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... faith- Men set up a standard and authority above Scripture- Immortal principle necessary to apprehend eternal things - Hence Christianity viewed in a negative cha- racter - Negative character of the law - Its object and origin - How man ...
... faith- Men set up a standard and authority above Scripture- Immortal principle necessary to apprehend eternal things - Hence Christianity viewed in a negative cha- racter - Negative character of the law - Its object and origin - How man ...
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... faith - Neglect of these a proof of impiety : - Sometimes the only convicting proof - Mistaken notion of God - Insufficient grounds of love to God - Doctrine of the means and of the end - The one without the other useless - Danger of ...
... faith - Neglect of these a proof of impiety : - Sometimes the only convicting proof - Mistaken notion of God - Insufficient grounds of love to God - Doctrine of the means and of the end - The one without the other useless - Danger of ...
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... faith . The man who has not attained to the Gospel spirit of prayer is not exempt from the legal duty of prayer ; and , if he practically considers that he is , will be little likely ever to possess that spirit . It 14 LECTURE I.
... faith . The man who has not attained to the Gospel spirit of prayer is not exempt from the legal duty of prayer ; and , if he practically considers that he is , will be little likely ever to possess that spirit . It 14 LECTURE I.
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... friend who careth for him - who can be touched with a feeling of his infirmities - who is willing and able to re- lieve him . It is to invigorate and brighten , by exercise , all his christian graces - his faith , 18 LECTURE I.
... friend who careth for him - who can be touched with a feeling of his infirmities - who is willing and able to re- lieve him . It is to invigorate and brighten , by exercise , all his christian graces - his faith , 18 LECTURE I.
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John Michael Hiffernan. exercise , all his christian graces - his faith , his hope , his love . It is for those gracious purposes that God has suspended the commu- nication of his blessings on prayer — has said , " Ask and ye shall have ...
John Michael Hiffernan. exercise , all his christian graces - his faith , his hope , his love . It is for those gracious purposes that God has suspended the commu- nication of his blessings on prayer — has said , " Ask and ye shall have ...
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Page 30 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 181 - Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 256 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...
Page 201 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 244 - God;) 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...
Page 11 - Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men : we bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
Page 47 - Now the Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 262 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 163 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 161 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.