The Christian Helper: Or Gospel Sermons for Congregations and Families, Volume 3Alonzo Ames Miner, Elbridge Gerry Brooks, Abel Charles Thomas, Alonzo Amos Miner G. Collins, 1858 - Sermons, American |
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... rewards . - Like many other things , however , it is a blessing not for what it is , but for what it can do - for the comfort , energy , virtue , it can acquire , or impart . Indeed and this is the point which I wish , in what remains ...
... rewards . - Like many other things , however , it is a blessing not for what it is , but for what it can do - for the comfort , energy , virtue , it can acquire , or impart . Indeed and this is the point which I wish , in what remains ...
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... rewards the patient student - just as any virtuous habit or prin- ciple - temperance , honesty , charity , piety — is the result of both labor and grace . It is by both ; for while the injunction is , " Work out your own salva- tion ...
... rewards the patient student - just as any virtuous habit or prin- ciple - temperance , honesty , charity , piety — is the result of both labor and grace . It is by both ; for while the injunction is , " Work out your own salva- tion ...
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... rewards , however , are not so clearly appre- hended . I would now invite you to their consider- ation . They are ... reward of a successful resistance to temptation , then , is , the cessation of the temptation itself . Wrong desire ...
... rewards , however , are not so clearly appre- hended . I would now invite you to their consider- ation . They are ... reward of a successful resistance to temptation , then , is , the cessation of the temptation itself . Wrong desire ...
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... , and the way is now the tranquil highway of holiness , the royal walk of virtue , " whose ways are ways of pleasantness , and all whose paths are peace , " II . But the second reward which our text sug- VANQUISHED TEMPTATION . 29.
... , and the way is now the tranquil highway of holiness , the royal walk of virtue , " whose ways are ways of pleasantness , and all whose paths are peace , " II . But the second reward which our text sug- VANQUISHED TEMPTATION . 29.
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... reward which our text sug- gests as the result of resistance to temptation is the gaining of inward strength . " And ... rewards will follow our faithfulness , what bless- ed results will come as the recompense of our abiding rectitude ...
... reward which our text sug- gests as the result of resistance to temptation is the gaining of inward strength . " And ... rewards will follow our faithfulness , what bless- ed results will come as the recompense of our abiding rectitude ...
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Page 182 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 216 - For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and...
Page 27 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 22 - For he that will love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good ; Let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 27 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 9 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 19 - If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Page 63 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 56 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Page 67 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.