The Life and Power of True Godliness: Described in a Series of DiscoursesR. Carter, 1847 - 280 pages |
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... idea , which can be formed of religion , is a friendly connexion * between the reasonable creature and the Supreme being : and every system , ancient and modern , true or false , which bears the name of religion , proposes such a ...
... idea , which can be formed of religion , is a friendly connexion * between the reasonable creature and the Supreme being : and every system , ancient and modern , true or false , which bears the name of religion , proposes such a ...
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... idea is also familiar to men of our own age , both in public and in private life , in putting an end to contention between individuals and rival or belligerent commonwealths . It is easy to transfer this idea to our relations with the ...
... idea is also familiar to men of our own age , both in public and in private life , in putting an end to contention between individuals and rival or belligerent commonwealths . It is easy to transfer this idea to our relations with the ...
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... idea of union with God in him , and still you have denied the evangelical faith , and re- jected an essential part of the good tidings of Christianity . God , the only Lawgiver of the universe , is offended at the intelligent creature ...
... idea of union with God in him , and still you have denied the evangelical faith , and re- jected an essential part of the good tidings of Christianity . God , the only Lawgiver of the universe , is offended at the intelligent creature ...
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... ideas of moral order are always more or less famil- iar to those who have moral faculties ; and they are applica- ble also to our relations with Deity . Men , in every age , feeling themselves transgressors of the law of God , have ...
... ideas of moral order are always more or less famil- iar to those who have moral faculties ; and they are applica- ble also to our relations with Deity . Men , in every age , feeling themselves transgressors of the law of God , have ...
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... each implies the reconciliation of the parties at variance : and yet , somehow it has come to pass , that very discerning men have made themselves familiar with ideas of an atonement , which they 28 THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS.
... each implies the reconciliation of the parties at variance : and yet , somehow it has come to pass , that very discerning men have made themselves familiar with ideas of an atonement , which they 28 THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS.
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Page 113 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 158 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 236 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 31 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them : and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Page 178 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 88 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 61 - Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Page 245 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 258 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 220 - Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.