Devotional Guides, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1837 |
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... reason for the great publicity He has given to the faith of faithful Abra- ham , if it be not held up to encourage imitation . It cer- tainly answers a good purpose , merely as a protest against unbelief : but that cannot be its chief ...
... reason for the great publicity He has given to the faith of faithful Abra- ham , if it be not held up to encourage imitation . It cer- tainly answers a good purpose , merely as a protest against unbelief : but that cannot be its chief ...
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... reason to reckon our sal- vation improbable , than to reckon it impossible . God is just as likely to be perfectly willing to save us , as He is perfectly able . All our real knowledge of His saving power is derived from His Word ; and ...
... reason to reckon our sal- vation improbable , than to reckon it impossible . God is just as likely to be perfectly willing to save us , as He is perfectly able . All our real knowledge of His saving power is derived from His Word ; and ...
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... reason thus . What ! would we wish the gospel to be less open or less free to others , than it is ? Do you not see , that to encourage us , by a more personal offer than the general proclamation of mercy , would be to discourage the ...
... reason thus . What ! would we wish the gospel to be less open or less free to others , than it is ? Do you not see , that to encourage us , by a more personal offer than the general proclamation of mercy , would be to discourage the ...
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... reason why Abraham so readily and cordially believed the gospel for himself , was , because the promise embraced his own family , and was eventually to bless " all families of the earth . " And , as the prospect of that was one of the ...
... reason why Abraham so readily and cordially believed the gospel for himself , was , because the promise embraced his own family , and was eventually to bless " all families of the earth . " And , as the prospect of that was one of the ...
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... reason ! ) that they had no real occasion to remain another night in prison . Accordingly , we never saw any awakened sinner or weeping backslider , whose case we thought hopeless . We durst not mend the pen to any de- spairing penitent ...
... reason ! ) that they had no real occasion to remain another night in prison . Accordingly , we never saw any awakened sinner or weeping backslider , whose case we thought hopeless . We durst not mend the pen to any de- spairing penitent ...
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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.