Devotional Guides, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1837 |
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... displeasing God , nor any de- sire to please Him . We may often be both weak and wrong in giving way to some of our alarms ; but the worst of them cannot be so criminal , as lethargy of heart or conscience . - God can sympathize with ...
... displeasing God , nor any de- sire to please Him . We may often be both weak and wrong in giving way to some of our alarms ; but the worst of them cannot be so criminal , as lethargy of heart or conscience . - God can sympathize with ...
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... DISPLEASING GOD . We have no real occasion to suspect the genuineness of our faith or our repentance , if we are conscientiously afraid of displeasing God - as " the God of salvation . " We are not strangers to the regenerating work of ...
... DISPLEASING GOD . We have no real occasion to suspect the genuineness of our faith or our repentance , if we are conscientiously afraid of displeasing God - as " the God of salvation . " We are not strangers to the regenerating work of ...
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... displeasing God , nothing could prove our conversion ; so nothing can disprove it , whilst this fear influences our habits and spirit . No want of present joy or peace , can invalidate that past work of the Holy Spirit , which made us ...
... displeasing God , nothing could prove our conversion ; so nothing can disprove it , whilst this fear influences our habits and spirit . No want of present joy or peace , can invalidate that past work of the Holy Spirit , which made us ...
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... displease God . Instead of satisfying them- selves with avoiding those sins which displease man as well as God , they also set themselves to guard against many things which the world does not reckon sinful . They ... DISPLEASING GOD . 115.
... displease God . Instead of satisfying them- selves with avoiding those sins which displease man as well as God , they also set themselves to guard against many things which the world does not reckon sinful . They ... DISPLEASING GOD . 115.
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... displeasing God is not , however , the whole spirit of Christian obedience , nor of Christian watch- fulness . Valuable as it is , as a principle of both , and val- id as it is , as a proof of saving conversion , it is not the best nor ...
... displeasing God is not , however , the whole spirit of Christian obedience , nor of Christian watch- fulness . Valuable as it is , as a principle of both , and val- id as it is , as a proof of saving conversion , it is not the best nor ...
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Page 271 - 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.) 22.
Page 286 - Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 41 - 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 196 - And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Page 267 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 69 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 50 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Page 69 - Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Page 40 - But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 65 - This is eternal life, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.