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... believe that there is very little ground for this objection in fact , and even as the world goes ; in reason and principle there is none . A good Christian divides his time between the duties of religion , the calls of business , and ...
... believe that there is very little ground for this objection in fact , and even as the world goes ; in reason and principle there is none . A good Christian divides his time between the duties of religion , the calls of business , and ...
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... believe he wills to be done , which , with respect to God , is in other cases a desire to serve him . Now this is not only a restraint from vice , but an incitement to action . Instructed as in Christian countries mankind generally are ...
... believe he wills to be done , which , with respect to God , is in other cases a desire to serve him . Now this is not only a restraint from vice , but an incitement to action . Instructed as in Christian countries mankind generally are ...
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... believe , adsorb every other motive and every other princi- ple of action whatever , even the fear of God amongst the rest . This principle , by its nature , might gain a complete possession of the heart and will , so that a person ...
... believe , adsorb every other motive and every other princi- ple of action whatever , even the fear of God amongst the rest . This principle , by its nature , might gain a complete possession of the heart and will , so that a person ...
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... believe to be displeasing to him ; cherish , confirm , strengthen the principle itself , which sustains this course of external conduct , and you will not want many lessons , you ned not listen to any other monitor . SERMON III ...
... believe to be displeasing to him ; cherish , confirm , strengthen the principle itself , which sustains this course of external conduct , and you will not want many lessons , you ned not listen to any other monitor . SERMON III ...
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... believe that they are ap- proaching fast upon us , that they are at hand , or shortly will be , that we shall indeed experience what they are . The world of spirits , the world for which we are destined , is invisible to us . Hear St ...
... believe that they are ap- proaching fast upon us , that they are at hand , or shortly will be , that we shall indeed experience what they are . The world of spirits , the world for which we are destined , is invisible to us . Hear St ...
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Page 92 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.
Page 176 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 190 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 122 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 113 - There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Page 82 - And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles...
Page 88 - And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee (for yet there are five years of famine), lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 122 - As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 152 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 35 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.