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... thing ; yet we are never represented as mere machines , subjected to an over- whelming and irresistible influence . The aid of the Holy Spirit is freely offered unto all ; nor does that blessed Person cease to strive even with the most ...
... thing ; yet we are never represented as mere machines , subjected to an over- whelming and irresistible influence . The aid of the Holy Spirit is freely offered unto all ; nor does that blessed Person cease to strive even with the most ...
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... thing . From the first faint motions of * " To discover wherein such image and likeness con- sisted , what better method can we take , than to inquire wherein consist that divine image and likeness , which , as the Scriptures of the New ...
... thing . From the first faint motions of * " To discover wherein such image and likeness con- sisted , what better method can we take , than to inquire wherein consist that divine image and likeness , which , as the Scriptures of the New ...
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... things , dark and confused . The Apostle , describing the state of the world previous to the diffusion of Christian knowledge , asserts , that men had become vain in their imaginations , and that their foolish heart was darkened ; that ...
... things , dark and confused . The Apostle , describing the state of the world previous to the diffusion of Christian knowledge , asserts , that men had become vain in their imaginations , and that their foolish heart was darkened ; that ...
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George Stanley Faber. declares , that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them , because they are spiritually_discerned . * His knowledge of divine ...
George Stanley Faber. declares , that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them , because they are spiritually_discerned . * His knowledge of divine ...
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George Stanley Faber. a man born blind ; nor can any description of spiritual things , however just , communicate a clear conception of them to him whose under- standing is darkened . The reason , which the Apostle gives , is simply ...
George Stanley Faber. a man born blind ; nor can any description of spiritual things , however just , communicate a clear conception of them to him whose under- standing is darkened . The reason , which the Apostle gives , is simply ...
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Page 95 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 113 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 69 - Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Page 204 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 161 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 113 - 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 198 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 17 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 218 - But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of GOD perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
Page 35 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the...