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... shine The works that flow not from a faith divine . Pretensions high to faith a number have , But ah ! it is a faith that cannot save : * Eph . ii . 10 . " We trust , say they , in Christ , The Believer's Espousals . 335.
... shine The works that flow not from a faith divine . Pretensions high to faith a number have , But ah ! it is a faith that cannot save : * Eph . ii . 10 . " We trust , say they , in Christ , The Believer's Espousals . 335.
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Ralph Erskine. " We trust , say they , in Christ , we hope in God ; " Nor blush to blaze their rotten faith abroad , Nor try the trust of which they make a shew , If of a saving or a damning hue . They own their sins are ill : true , but ...
Ralph Erskine. " We trust , say they , in Christ , we hope in God ; " Nor blush to blaze their rotten faith abroad , Nor try the trust of which they make a shew , If of a saving or a damning hue . They own their sins are ill : true , but ...
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... trust Christ for what's amiss . Thus to his righteousness profess to flee , Yet by it still would their own saviours be . They seem to works of merit bloody foes , Yet seek salvation as it were * by those . Blind Gentiles found , who ...
... trust Christ for what's amiss . Thus to his righteousness profess to flee , Yet by it still would their own saviours be . They seem to works of merit bloody foes , Yet seek salvation as it were * by those . Blind Gentiles found , who ...
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... trust ) as these , " Tho ' not their vain superfluous shew and blaze . 66 Bigotted zealots , whose soul crimes are hid , " Would damn us all to hell ; but God forbid . " Whatever such a whining sect profess , " " Tis but a nice , morose ...
... trust ) as these , " Tho ' not their vain superfluous shew and blaze . 66 Bigotted zealots , whose soul crimes are hid , " Would damn us all to hell ; but God forbid . " Whatever such a whining sect profess , " " Tis but a nice , morose ...
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... Trust creatures , nor to help thy thrall , Nor to assuage thy grief ; Use means , but look beyond them all , Thy Husband's thy relief . If Heav'n prescribe a bitter drug , Fret not with froward will ; This carriage may thy cure prorogue ...
... Trust creatures , nor to help thy thrall , Nor to assuage thy grief ; Use means , but look beyond them all , Thy Husband's thy relief . If Heav'n prescribe a bitter drug , Fret not with froward will ; This carriage may thy cure prorogue ...
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Page 175 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 166 - Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 234 - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Page 170 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 201 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" They say unto him, " The son of David." He saith unto them, " How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool ? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Page 289 - Now- therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear ? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Page 171 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Page 276 - Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Page 177 - Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound : that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 179 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.