The Christian correspondent, letters exemplifying the fruits of holy living and the blessedness of holy dying [ed. by H. Rogers] with a preliminary essay by J. Montgomery, Volume 1 |
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... GRACE BY WHICH THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER IS DEVELOPED AND MATURED . LETTER PAGE 124. John Knox to his mother - in ... grace . 137. Rev. John Newton to Mrs. W. economy of grace ... ... ... What trials are greatest . The me ...
... GRACE BY WHICH THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER IS DEVELOPED AND MATURED . LETTER PAGE 124. John Knox to his mother - in ... grace . 137. Rev. John Newton to Mrs. W. economy of grace ... ... ... What trials are greatest . The me ...
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... grace and simplicity both of motion and speech are gone , and it begins to act a part , which however inartificial , because it knows not art , is yet so capital a lesson of art , that thenceforward it will need no teacher but itself to ...
... grace and simplicity both of motion and speech are gone , and it begins to act a part , which however inartificial , because it knows not art , is yet so capital a lesson of art , that thenceforward it will need no teacher but itself to ...
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... grace , by Himself or by his creatures ; and it is the memorial of a day , which has left upon every day that has succeeded , or shall follow it to the end , eternal influences , which , however unappreciably small or great to finite ...
... grace , by Himself or by his creatures ; and it is the memorial of a day , which has left upon every day that has succeeded , or shall follow it to the end , eternal influences , which , however unappreciably small or great to finite ...
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... grace of God , and constrained by the love of Christ . In every one of his Epistles ( corroborative of the fact on which so much stress has been laid in the foregoing pages , ) this last and loveliest feature of the writer's character ...
... grace of God , and constrained by the love of Christ . In every one of his Epistles ( corroborative of the fact on which so much stress has been laid in the foregoing pages , ) this last and loveliest feature of the writer's character ...
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... grace to live in his fear , and to die in the true Christian faith , from the which , in God's name , I exhort you that you never swerve , neither for hope of life , nor for fear of death ; for if you will deny his truth to lengthen ...
... grace to live in his fear , and to die in the true Christian faith , from the which , in God's name , I exhort you that you never swerve , neither for hope of life , nor for fear of death ; for if you will deny his truth to lengthen ...
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Page lii - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, 1 gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Page lv - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page liii - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 44 - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Page 115 - Whatever a misjudging world may say, such men as these will " shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever.
Page 80 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page xlvi - Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people; and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Page li - And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page liii - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 174 - I train up my son in the ways of religion, and teach him what it is to " keep a conscience void of offence towards God, and towards man...