The Treatise on Religious AffectionsAmer. Tract Soc., 1824 - 276 pages |
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... minds were filled with a kind of glori- ous felicity . It was a prelibation of the joys of heaven , raising their minds to a degree of heav- enly blessedness . Hence the proposition , or doctrine , which I would 14 Part I. THE TEXT.
... minds were filled with a kind of glori- ous felicity . It was a prelibation of the joys of heaven , raising their minds to a degree of heav- enly blessedness . Hence the proposition , or doctrine , which I would 14 Part I. THE TEXT.
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... heaven consists very much in holy affection . In order to learn the true nature of any thing , we should go where the subject of our inquiry is to be found in its greatest purity and perfection . If we would acquaint ourselves with the ...
... heaven consists very much in holy affection . In order to learn the true nature of any thing , we should go where the subject of our inquiry is to be found in its greatest purity and perfection . If we would acquaint ourselves with the ...
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... heaven , who possess religion in its highest perfection , are exceedingly affected with what they behold and contemplate of the perfections of God , and of his work . They are all as a pure flame of fire in the warmth of their love ...
... heaven , who possess religion in its highest perfection , are exceedingly affected with what they behold and contemplate of the perfections of God , and of his work . They are all as a pure flame of fire in the warmth of their love ...
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... heaven , the body could not subsist under them . No man can see God and live . The knowledge which the saints have of the divine glory in this world , and those holy affec- tions which arise from it , are of the same nature with those ...
... heaven , the body could not subsist under them . No man can see God and live . The knowledge which the saints have of the divine glory in this world , and those holy affec- tions which arise from it , are of the same nature with those ...
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... heaven , and most opposed to hell , and the devil . But notwithstanding this , we must not argue from hence that this affection has no counterfeit . It may be observed that the more excellent any thing is , the more likely is it to be ...
... heaven , and most opposed to hell , and the devil . But notwithstanding this , we must not argue from hence that this affection has no counterfeit . It may be observed that the more excellent any thing is , the more likely is it to be ...
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Page 277 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 185 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 285 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 234 - Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 181 - And we have seen and do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Page 48 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: ' when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 100 - So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
Page 222 - So the apostle exhorts the same persons " to put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of their minds ; and to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,
Page 262 - For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Page 270 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.