Discourses and EssaysW. Collins, 1899 - 360 pages |
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... Eternal Being humbled himself , and appeared among men in the form of a child . Do these asser- tions seem extraordinary or inadmissible ? We have the means of proving them . We have not lightly advanced them ; we can dissipate the ...
... Eternal Being humbled himself , and appeared among men in the form of a child . Do these asser- tions seem extraordinary or inadmissible ? We have the means of proving them . We have not lightly advanced them ; we can dissipate the ...
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... eternal life . " Thus God has been manifested in the flesh ; we can not believe in the word of God without believing in this truth . But can not the very nature of the work which was to be accomplished make us feel beforehand that God ...
... eternal life . " Thus God has been manifested in the flesh ; we can not believe in the word of God without believing in this truth . But can not the very nature of the work which was to be accomplished make us feel beforehand that God ...
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... eternal happiness , would not this act , instead of displaying his holiness , have covered it with a thick cloud ? He was therefore not content with raising up man , but at the same time he abased himself ; he became like unto a servant ...
... eternal happiness , would not this act , instead of displaying his holiness , have covered it with a thick cloud ? He was therefore not content with raising up man , but at the same time he abased himself ; he became like unto a servant ...
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... eternal mansions of glory ? have been for a small matter that he did it . Where- It can not Surely he God has been with you that you might be with him . came not hither merely to display his glory before our eyes . If you are not with ...
... eternal mansions of glory ? have been for a small matter that he did it . Where- It can not Surely he God has been with you that you might be with him . came not hither merely to display his glory before our eyes . If you are not with ...
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... eternal peace , what can there be besides that does concern it ? Will you not remember that indifference has its bounds , and that the day is coming when we can no longer postpone the consideration of this subject ? May that moment have ...
... eternal peace , what can there be besides that does concern it ? Will you not remember that indifference has its bounds , and that the day is coming when we can no longer postpone the consideration of this subject ? May that moment have ...
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Page 144 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 37 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 38 - For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Page 345 - ... that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead...
Page 112 - Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Page 149 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you ; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 84 - 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 143 - And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba : prayer also shall be made for him continually ; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 178 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 142 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...