Means of Grace: Lectures Delivered Upon Wednesday Mornings During the Season of Lent, 1851 in St. John's Church, Clapham RiseThomas Hatchard, 1851 - 180 pages |
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... character of the object with which it has constant and habitual intercourse : if that object be en- nobling or elevating , the mind will become elevated or ennobled ; if the object be the contrary to this , the effect will still cor ...
... character of the object with which it has constant and habitual intercourse : if that object be en- nobling or elevating , the mind will become elevated or ennobled ; if the object be the contrary to this , the effect will still cor ...
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... is there a single instance of any one having risen to eminence for holiness of character , of whom it may not be recorded that by how much he surpassed others in the exhibition of every grace of the Spirit , by so much PRAYER . 67.
... is there a single instance of any one having risen to eminence for holiness of character , of whom it may not be recorded that by how much he surpassed others in the exhibition of every grace of the Spirit , by so much PRAYER . 67.
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... character - you will rise to a loftier moral elevation -- you will breathe a purer atmosphere , and reflect a brighter lustre — you will exhibit to others more of the fruit of the Spirit ; till , at length , grace itself shall expand ...
... character - you will rise to a loftier moral elevation -- you will breathe a purer atmosphere , and reflect a brighter lustre — you will exhibit to others more of the fruit of the Spirit ; till , at length , grace itself shall expand ...
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... character of Christ . The value of any habit may be often best perceived by considering the result which must follow from its neglect or omission . And the excellence of religious meditation may be tested by considering the evils which ...
... character of Christ . The value of any habit may be often best perceived by considering the result which must follow from its neglect or omission . And the excellence of religious meditation may be tested by considering the evils which ...
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... be the exemplary and irreproachable character which they bear to the eye of man , nevertheless , being uncon- verted , they are in the very gall of bitter- ness and in the bond of iniquity ; that they RELIGIOUS INTERCOUrse . 115.
... be the exemplary and irreproachable character which they bear to the eye of man , nevertheless , being uncon- verted , they are in the very gall of bitter- ness and in the bond of iniquity ; that they RELIGIOUS INTERCOUrse . 115.
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Page 36 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 94 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 16 - And what shall I more say ? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 49 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light ? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 110 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 49 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Page 13 - They are, in truth, as appears to us, compositions of very rare merit, and realise a notion we have always entertained, that a sermon for our rural congregations there somewhere was, if it could be hit off, which in language should be familiar without being plain, and in matter solid without being abstruse."— Quarterly Review.
Page 93 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
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