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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... doth so much overvalue all that is in itself , that every common grace or duty doth seem to it to be a state of godliness . Their common knowledge seemeth to them to be saving illumination : every little sor- row for their sin , or wish ...
... doth so much overvalue all that is in itself , that every common grace or duty doth seem to it to be a state of godliness . Their common knowledge seemeth to them to be saving illumination : every little sor- row for their sin , or wish ...
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... doth , and judge better than the judge doth , and perhaps preach better than the preacher doth , unless his ignorance be so palpable as that he cannot question it . Absolom would do the people justice better than his father David , if ...
... doth , and judge better than the judge doth , and perhaps preach better than the preacher doth , unless his ignorance be so palpable as that he cannot question it . Absolom would do the people justice better than his father David , if ...
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... doth not , even abhor himself , when he perceiveth how little he loveth his God , and how little all his medita- tions on the love and blood of Christ , and of the infinite goodness of God , and of the heavenly glory do kindle the fire ...
... doth not , even abhor himself , when he perceiveth how little he loveth his God , and how little all his medita- tions on the love and blood of Christ , and of the infinite goodness of God , and of the heavenly glory do kindle the fire ...
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... doth shame it . As our serious poet Her- bert saith , When the hair grows sweet with pride and lust , The powder doth forget the dust . And though thy soul be far nobler than thy body , yet here how ignorant , and weak , and distempered ...
... doth shame it . As our serious poet Her- bert saith , When the hair grows sweet with pride and lust , The powder doth forget the dust . And though thy soul be far nobler than thy body , yet here how ignorant , and weak , and distempered ...
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... Doth not all the world cry out at last of the deceitful- ness of riches , and the vanity of pleasure and prosperity on earth , and the perniciousness of all worldly cares ? And doth not thy conscience tell thee , that when thou comest ...
... Doth not all the world cry out at last of the deceitful- ness of riches , and the vanity of pleasure and prosperity on earth , and the perniciousness of all worldly cares ? And doth not thy conscience tell thee , that when thou comest ...
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Popular passages
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.