The spiritual lifeSamuel Bentley, Press, 1834 - 295 pages |
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... hands of God , with uncalculating Faith . CHAP . IV . - DEVOUT EXERCISES OF WILL . Devotion influences the will by settling our Judg- ment of what is right . For it considers things , under God's eye . And discourses about them with God ...
... hands of God , with uncalculating Faith . CHAP . IV . - DEVOUT EXERCISES OF WILL . Devotion influences the will by settling our Judg- ment of what is right . For it considers things , under God's eye . And discourses about them with God ...
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... hand , and the prac- tice of Duty on the other , to concede for a moment that these several elements can be totally sepa- rated , or that a genuine piety can exist without some knowledge to inform , and some practice to express its ...
... hand , and the prac- tice of Duty on the other , to concede for a moment that these several elements can be totally sepa- rated , or that a genuine piety can exist without some knowledge to inform , and some practice to express its ...
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... hand as quickly , and adores it as profoundly , in the most usual occurrences of life , as the ig- norant and earthly - minded in the most miracu- lous . C And not less in the workings of the human mind PIETY IN GENERAL . 17.
... hand as quickly , and adores it as profoundly , in the most usual occurrences of life , as the ig- norant and earthly - minded in the most miracu- lous . C And not less in the workings of the human mind PIETY IN GENERAL . 17.
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... hand ; O skill for human reach too high , Too dazzling bright for mortal eye ! " O thou Father of our spirits , by whose inspiration only we can know and love thee , draw us by these meditations to thyself ; wake up the diviner par ...
... hand ; O skill for human reach too high , Too dazzling bright for mortal eye ! " O thou Father of our spirits , by whose inspiration only we can know and love thee , draw us by these meditations to thyself ; wake up the diviner par ...
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... hand ; as portions of that endless chain of which each link is reciprocally cause and effect , effect and cause ; as fleeting beings of a day , tossed for a few short moments to the surface of a troubled ocean , and then absorbed again ...
... hand ; as portions of that endless chain of which each link is reciprocally cause and effect , effect and cause ; as fleeting beings of a day , tossed for a few short moments to the surface of a troubled ocean , and then absorbed again ...
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Page 63 - 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 50 - Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season : they through Grace obey the calling...
Page 225 - I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients because I keep thy precepts.
Page 105 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 175 - 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.
Page 209 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 261 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 34 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows by the water courses.
Page 232 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 172 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.