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... Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost . " Heaven cannot consist in the separation of God and nature , but is their reunion and perfect amalgamation ; the twain . become one flesh . Those who are gone before us ...
... Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost . " Heaven cannot consist in the separation of God and nature , but is their reunion and perfect amalgamation ; the twain . become one flesh . Those who are gone before us ...
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Page i - Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery : if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. God hath spoken once ; twice have I heard this : that power belongeth unto God.
Page 76 - The wind bloweth where it listeth. . . So is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 91 - Son, but delivered Him up for us all, will also with Him freely give us all things.
Page 27 - The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed in us.
Page 26 - ... answered in the affirmative, it must be decided, whether the miracles of Jesus Christ can in any way be compared with those, wrought by prophets and apostles who claimed no such distinction; and here it will be granted, that our Saviour's miracles differ not so widely in character, from those wrought by the prophets of the Old, and the Apostles of the New Testament, as to bear no comparison with them; on the contrary there is a great similarity to them. The highest order of miracles, that of...
Page 34 - God ; and when He who is our life shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Page 87 - It is true, affliction for the present seems not joyous but grievous; but afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who are exercised thereby. I never knew the treachery of ministers, and their dreadful hypocrisy and double dealing in the matters of God, before that time, and I could never love them after that ; for they made many one rack their conscience in taking that bond.
Page 14 - and, just as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
Page 39 - This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world ; g " and so strongly was this idea impressed upon their minds, that they would have taken him. by force and made him a king. At the following feast of Tabernacles we still find that " many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh will he do more miracles than those which this man hath done? Many of the people therefore said, Of a truth this is the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ.
Page 45 - Euler of the skies despiseth not poverty. He puts down the mighty from their seat, and exalts them of low degree. He fills the hungry with good things, and sends the rich empty away.