The Christian Spectator, Volume 4Howe & Spalding, 1822 |
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... look to heaven for aid , but pre- sumptuously relied on his own strength ; and how dreadful was the result ! Let every self - sufficient Christian , ignorant of his weak- ness , profit by the experience of an apostle . From Peter's ...
... look to heaven for aid , but pre- sumptuously relied on his own strength ; and how dreadful was the result ! Let every self - sufficient Christian , ignorant of his weak- ness , profit by the experience of an apostle . From Peter's ...
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... look for a glad- der acclamation from the fertile field , than from the arid waste , where no character of grandeur made up for the barrenness that was around you ? Would not the goodly tree , compassed about with the glories of its ...
... look for a glad- der acclamation from the fertile field , than from the arid waste , where no character of grandeur made up for the barrenness that was around you ? Would not the goodly tree , compassed about with the glories of its ...
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... look for the halle- luiabs of devout ecstacy ? Would it not be from him whom God had arrayed in the splendour of nature's brightest ac complishments ? Would it not be from him , with whose constitutional feel- ings the movements of ...
... look for the halle- luiabs of devout ecstacy ? Would it not be from him whom God had arrayed in the splendour of nature's brightest ac complishments ? Would it not be from him , with whose constitutional feel- ings the movements of ...
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... looks at their general aspect of sanctity , and is so en- grossed with this single expression of char- acter , as to ... look with a most wakeful eye over all the sufferings and necessities of our species - and who open their hand most ...
... looks at their general aspect of sanctity , and is so en- grossed with this single expression of char- acter , as to ... look with a most wakeful eye over all the sufferings and necessities of our species - and who open their hand most ...
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... look so imposing in their semblance and their display , and draw around them here , a popularity and an applause , which will all be dissipated into nothing , when here- after they are brought up for examination to the judgment seat ...
... look so imposing in their semblance and their display , and draw around them here , a popularity and an applause , which will all be dissipated into nothing , when here- after they are brought up for examination to the judgment seat ...
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Page 506 - Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Page 184 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 506 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Page 226 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 11 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 519 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 284 - But He answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
Page 126 - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Page 186 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 571 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.