Life in Earnest: Six Lectures, on Christian Activity and Ardor. 10th ThousandJ. Nisbet, 1845 - 136 pages |
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... incubus , his spirit will acquire an elas- ticity equal to the most arduous or most mul- tifarious toils . And some believers are not suf- ficiently fervent , from being straitened in them- selves . They do not open their souls to those ...
... incubus , his spirit will acquire an elas- ticity equal to the most arduous or most mul- tifarious toils . And some believers are not suf- ficiently fervent , from being straitened in them- selves . They do not open their souls to those ...
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... incubus , the entire body of sin will come spontaneously away . That vital warmth is the love of God abundantly shed abroad - the kindly glow which the Comforter diffuses in the soul which he makes his home . His genial inhabitation ...
... incubus , the entire body of sin will come spontaneously away . That vital warmth is the love of God abundantly shed abroad - the kindly glow which the Comforter diffuses in the soul which he makes his home . His genial inhabitation ...
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Page 60 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof...
Page 2 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Page 25 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.
Page 24 - Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 110 - Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure : for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall : for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Page 2 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 3 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 99 - And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Page 2 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Page 109 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.