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Page xxix
... conduct among men is owing to their want of conviction how hard it is to become a sincere and obedient follower of Christ . We are apt to think too little of the extent and variety of religious obliga- tions , and the difficulties and ...
... conduct among men is owing to their want of conviction how hard it is to become a sincere and obedient follower of Christ . We are apt to think too little of the extent and variety of religious obliga- tions , and the difficulties and ...
Page xxxiv
... gas , prepared in a small house near the foot of the rock , and conducted by concealed passages to the lantern . This light , however , important as it is , is neglected as almost everything else is xxxiv EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL .
... gas , prepared in a small house near the foot of the rock , and conducted by concealed passages to the lantern . This light , however , important as it is , is neglected as almost everything else is xxxiv EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL .
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... conduct . It is then only that we can see the world as it is and ourselves as we are , and that the realities of eter- nity , now obscured and placed at a seeming distance by the shadows of earth , rise up before us in all their ...
... conduct . It is then only that we can see the world as it is and ourselves as we are , and that the realities of eter- nity , now obscured and placed at a seeming distance by the shadows of earth , rise up before us in all their ...
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... ? You think of yourself now as in a state of trial ; you acknowledge your everlasting welfare to be entirely dependent on your present conduct ; and you know that when a few rapid days are past , you will appear 24 SERIOUSNESS .
... ? You think of yourself now as in a state of trial ; you acknowledge your everlasting welfare to be entirely dependent on your present conduct ; and you know that when a few rapid days are past , you will appear 24 SERIOUSNESS .
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... conduct , to direct our exertions and employ our strength in works of obedience and duty . " This is the first commandment . " It is so , because a devout regard to the Deity is the very foundation of all religion ; because our ...
... conduct , to direct our exertions and employ our strength in works of obedience and duty . " This is the first commandment . " It is so , because a devout regard to the Deity is the very foundation of all religion ; because our ...
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Page xxxvii - How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
Page 213 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Page 99 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 101 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 42 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 157 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 216 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Page 214 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 181 - Here a few hours' sleep recovered me in some degree from the stupidity in which I had been for some days. I awoke with a light heart, and said : ' He knoweth our frame, and remembereth that we are but dust.
Page 41 - Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee ! My flesh and my heart faileth ; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.