A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian economics, (or family duties)Richard Edwards, 1825 - Christian life |
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... glory and vanities of the world , which are indeed of lower worth , this is not pride , but a due es- timation of things . 5. When a wise man desireth that others were of his mind for their own good , and the propa- gating of the truth ...
... glory and vanities of the world , which are indeed of lower worth , this is not pride , but a due es- timation of things . 5. When a wise man desireth that others were of his mind for their own good , and the propa- gating of the truth ...
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... glory in their supposed greatness , when the greatness of God should show them their contemptible vileness ; and to magnify themselves , when they should magnify their Maker , It makes the strong man glory in his strength , and the rich ...
... glory in their supposed greatness , when the greatness of God should show them their contemptible vileness ; and to magnify themselves , when they should magnify their Maker , It makes the strong man glory in his strength , and the rich ...
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... glory , wisdom , and goodness , to which all our faculties offer up themselves in admiration , love , and praise : not only for the delights of these , nor only that our persons may herein be happy ; but chiefly that God may have his ...
... glory , wisdom , and goodness , to which all our faculties offer up themselves in admiration , love , and praise : not only for the delights of these , nor only that our persons may herein be happy ; but chiefly that God may have his ...
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... it to the oracle , saying , None is wiser than God . So should we all send back to God , the praise and glory of all that is ascribed to us , undo a pair of tarrying irons , or unriddle a CHAP . IV . ] 13 CHRISTIAN ETHICS .
... it to the oracle , saying , None is wiser than God . So should we all send back to God , the praise and glory of all that is ascribed to us , undo a pair of tarrying irons , or unriddle a CHAP . IV . ] 13 CHRISTIAN ETHICS .
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... glory of God , or the fulfilling of his will . Sign XII . Proud men would fain steal from God himself the honour of his most excellent works . If they are rulers , they are more desirous that the thanks , for the order and peace of ...
... glory of God , or the fulfilling of his will . Sign XII . Proud men would fain steal from God himself the honour of his most excellent works . If they are rulers , they are more desirous that the thanks , for the order and peace of ...
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Page 307 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 296 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 569 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 289 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 137 - WATCH, THEREFORE, FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore, BE YE ALSO READY : FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMETH.
Page 157 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 317 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 187 - SPIRIT in the inner man ; that CHRIST may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; and to know the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of GOD.
Page 478 - Jews ; who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.