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... injunctions to the cultivation of right dispositions , and to the practice of commanded duties , to which in truth they form the most powerful motives . The Author of Revelation , who is also the Au- thor of our nature , and who is ...
... injunctions to the cultivation of right dispositions , and to the practice of commanded duties , to which in truth they form the most powerful motives . The Author of Revelation , who is also the Au- thor of our nature , and who is ...
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... injunction may not at first view appear to harmonize well with that which we have just been illustrating . It may be said , 1 1 John iii . 2 , 3. Heb . vi . 11 , 12 . Leighton . 2 Psal . lxxi . 14-16 . 1 " does not perfect love cast out ...
... injunction may not at first view appear to harmonize well with that which we have just been illustrating . It may be said , 1 1 John iii . 2 , 3. Heb . vi . 11 , 12 . Leighton . 2 Psal . lxxi . 14-16 . 1 " does not perfect love cast out ...
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... injunction is contained in these words , " See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently . " The motives by which compliance with this injunction is enforced , are brought forward in the clauses which precede and follow this ...
... injunction is contained in these words , " See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently . " The motives by which compliance with this injunction is enforced , are brought forward in the clauses which precede and follow this ...
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... injunction is char- acterized by benignant wisdom . It is by loving one another that the highest interest of the whole christian family is promoted . Every- thing thus becomes common property . I have the advantage of all that any of my ...
... injunction is char- acterized by benignant wisdom . It is by loving one another that the highest interest of the whole christian family is promoted . Every- thing thus becomes common property . I have the advantage of all that any of my ...
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... injunctions . " Be anxious about nothing ; " your heavenly Father knows what you need , and can deliver you out of every trial . But while you cultivate the childlike character , seek in connection with it the vigor and activity of ...
... injunctions . " Be anxious about nothing ; " your heavenly Father knows what you need , and can deliver you out of every trial . But while you cultivate the childlike character , seek in connection with it the vigor and activity of ...
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Page 334 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
Page 202 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 274 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 301 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 89 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 615 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 43 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth ; even in him...
Page 527 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lifted up, ye 'everlasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 319 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death...
Page 365 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.