Essays on the Distinguishing Traits of Christian CharacterDodge & Sayre, 1813 - 230 pages |
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... Look abroad into the world , and see the thousands that rest here for eternity . Melancholy view ! The heart is indeed deceitful above all things , as well as desperately wicked . The man who is merely moral is a stranger to the living ...
... Look abroad into the world , and see the thousands that rest here for eternity . Melancholy view ! The heart is indeed deceitful above all things , as well as desperately wicked . The man who is merely moral is a stranger to the living ...
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... look into your Bible . Will such moral- ity be of any avail in the solemn hour , that tries the spirits of men ? To the law and the testimony : Every page will flash conviction on the con- science , that such spurious morality is of no ...
... look into your Bible . Will such moral- ity be of any avail in the solemn hour , that tries the spirits of men ? To the law and the testimony : Every page will flash conviction on the con- science , that such spurious morality is of no ...
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... looks like a compromise between the heart and the conscience , short of a life of exter- nal godliness . The conscience is so seriously af fected with divine truth , as often and for a length of time , not to allow some of the worst 3 ...
... looks like a compromise between the heart and the conscience , short of a life of exter- nal godliness . The conscience is so seriously af fected with divine truth , as often and for a length of time , not to allow some of the worst 3 ...
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... them that are entering to go in . All this was denounced by one wo after another , as the hypocrisy of men who should therefore re- ceive the greater damnation . We need not go far to look for multiplied testi- Form of Religion . 19.
... them that are entering to go in . All this was denounced by one wo after another , as the hypocrisy of men who should therefore re- ceive the greater damnation . We need not go far to look for multiplied testi- Form of Religion . 19.
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Gardiner Spring. We need not go far to look for multiplied testi- mony , that there are those in this age of the Church , who , like the Pharisees , outwardly appear right- cous unto men , but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity ...
Gardiner Spring. We need not go far to look for multiplied testi- mony , that there are those in this age of the Church , who , like the Pharisees , outwardly appear right- cous unto men , but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity ...
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Page 198 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 90 - Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Page 46 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us; because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Page 187 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 77 - O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Page 138 - Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory ; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 158 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Page 70 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 215 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 195 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.