Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the CorinthiansWestley and Davis, 1828 - 360 pages |
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Page xxii
... labour and pains , what is sinful in your disposition amended ; —this work can be of little service to you : but if you are anxious to partake more largely of the mind which was in Christ , and to imbibe more of the dove - like temper ...
... labour and pains , what is sinful in your disposition amended ; —this work can be of little service to you : but if you are anxious to partake more largely of the mind which was in Christ , and to imbibe more of the dove - like temper ...
Page 39
... labour for their conversion with disinterested kindness . We are to bear , with unruffled meekness , all their provoking sarcasms ; and to sustain , with deep humility , the consciousness of our clearer percep- tions ; and to convince ...
... labour for their conversion with disinterested kindness . We are to bear , with unruffled meekness , all their provoking sarcasms ; and to sustain , with deep humility , the consciousness of our clearer percep- tions ; and to convince ...
Page 69
... labour than it does those of a better natural temper ; just as a man afflicted with a weakly constitution , or a chronic disease , must take more pains with himself than one who has sound health - and he will , after all , look more ...
... labour than it does those of a better natural temper ; just as a man afflicted with a weakly constitution , or a chronic disease , must take more pains with himself than one who has sound health - and he will , after all , look more ...
Page 70
... labour . The virtues which we are about to consider , will spring up in no soil without culture ; but there are some soils peculiarly unfriendly to their growth , and in which productions of an opposite kind thrive spontaneously , and ...
... labour . The virtues which we are about to consider , will spring up in no soil without culture ; but there are some soils peculiarly unfriendly to their growth , and in which productions of an opposite kind thrive spontaneously , and ...
Page 73
... labour con- stantly , at the increase of love itself . We must do every thing we can to strengthen the principle of benevolence to man . In every step of our progress through the treatise before us , we must constantly E keep in mind ...
... labour con- stantly , at the increase of love itself . We must do every thing we can to strengthen the principle of benevolence to man . In every step of our progress through the treatise before us , we must constantly E keep in mind ...
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Page 33 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 279 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 279 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 242 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe...
Page 164 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 35 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 64 - Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 48 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.
Page 3 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us: whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation. He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; ,he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page xxiv - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.