The Treatise on Religious AffectionsAmer. Tract Soc., 1824 - 276 pages |
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... understanding , which is impli- ed in all reasonable service , is excluded . But it is undoubtedly true , that the essence of all true religion is holy love ; and that in this holy affec- tion , in that light which is the foundation of ...
... understanding , which is impli- ed in all reasonable service , is excluded . But it is undoubtedly true , that the essence of all true religion is holy love ; and that in this holy affec- tion , in that light which is the foundation of ...
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... understand these as contrary to each other . But what is a tender heart , but a heart easily affected with what ought to affect it ? God commends Josiah , because his heart was tea- der ; and it is evident from what are mentioned as ...
... understand these as contrary to each other . But what is a tender heart , but a heart easily affected with what ought to affect it ? God commends Josiah , because his heart was tea- der ; and it is evident from what are mentioned as ...
Page 86
... understand- ing , which the real saint possesses .-- The devil does not assault the hope of the hypocrite , as he does the hope of the true believer . Satan is a great enemy to evangelical hope , not only as it tends greatly to the ...
... understand- ing , which the real saint possesses .-- The devil does not assault the hope of the hypocrite , as he does the hope of the true believer . Satan is a great enemy to evangelical hope , not only as it tends greatly to the ...
Page 89
... understand them . The scriptures speak of living , or walking by faith , and not by sight ; by which is meant , a being governed by a respect to eternal things , which are the objects of faith ; and not by a respect to temporal things ...
... understand them . The scriptures speak of living , or walking by faith , and not by sight ; by which is meant , a being governed by a respect to eternal things , which are the objects of faith ; and not by a respect to temporal things ...
Page 109
... understand the same as by spirit- ual men and natural men in the preceding verses : " And I , brethren , could not speak unto you , as unto spiritual , but as unto carnal , " that is , as in a great measure unsanctified . That by the ...
... understand the same as by spirit- ual men and natural men in the preceding verses : " And I , brethren , could not speak unto you , as unto spiritual , but as unto carnal , " that is , as in a great measure unsanctified . That by the ...
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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.