A companion for the afflicted, a series of essays |
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... true source of all misery is - SIN . This is the fruitful occasion of all the sorrows by which the world is agonised . To man , therefore , and not to his Maker , must its existence be ascribed . " God is love ; " this is the sum A of ...
... true source of all misery is - SIN . This is the fruitful occasion of all the sorrows by which the world is agonised . To man , therefore , and not to his Maker , must its existence be ascribed . " God is love ; " this is the sum A of ...
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... true holiness ; " hav- ing in his nature no one stain of impurity , and no one trace of imperfection , to mar the dignity and grandeur with which he had been invested . All was light in his understanding : - it admitted truth without ...
... true holiness ; " hav- ing in his nature no one stain of impurity , and no one trace of imperfection , to mar the dignity and grandeur with which he had been invested . All was light in his understanding : - it admitted truth without ...
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... true welfare . Whatever , therefore , may be the nature of your affliction , you may be assured this is the end proposed . If this end be not attained , the failure must be ascribed to yourself . It is you who have frustrated the kind ...
... true welfare . Whatever , therefore , may be the nature of your affliction , you may be assured this is the end proposed . If this end be not attained , the failure must be ascribed to yourself . It is you who have frustrated the kind ...
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... true he always sees in his general conduct unworthiness and imperfection sufficient to render him vulnerable to trouble ; yet he cannot charge himself with having wilfully transgressed the word of the Lord . " I have endeavoured , " he ...
... true he always sees in his general conduct unworthiness and imperfection sufficient to render him vulnerable to trouble ; yet he cannot charge himself with having wilfully transgressed the word of the Lord . " I have endeavoured , " he ...
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... true condition , and therefore must form a wrong judgment res- pecting every thing around us ; for where a man is wrong as to some fundamental principle , his ignorance will possess more or less influence with respect to a great variety ...
... true condition , and therefore must form a wrong judgment res- pecting every thing around us ; for where a man is wrong as to some fundamental principle , his ignorance will possess more or less influence with respect to a great variety ...
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Page 108 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 113 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 57 - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.
Page 251 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 196 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us; because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Page 44 - If ye be reproached for the name of CHRIST, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of GOD resteth upon you : on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify GOD on this behalf.
Page 203 - God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. The Lord of Hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Page 300 - Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; 'and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Page 69 - For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool ; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Page 71 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed...