Spiritual Crumbs from the Masters̓ Table

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John F. Shaw, 1837 - Devotional literature - 306 pages

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Page 19 - unable to obtain peace. Thus it once happened to a pious man, I mean the holy David. He says, " When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long ; for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, my moisture is turned into the drought of summer, Selah. I
Page 214 - first, and also to the Gentile. For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page 20 - sin unto thee, and my iniquity Lave I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.'
Page 252 - lifted up, and he shall be brought low, and the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in
Page 226 - Let us not regard ourselves as Christians on account of some good work we may have performed, or some good feelings we may have experienced, or for the sake of some penitential conflict we may have endured! Something far more is most assuredly requisite. For unless a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Great things are certainly promised us by God,
Page 6 - and when he plunges us into fear and terror, as often as we think of the great day of judgment, when we must give an account of the things done in the body, whether they be good or bad. God speaks to us also by his manifold benefits, which he bestows upon us, both in body and soul.
Page 93 - as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Page 145 - have availed us. If a man had come to redeem us, what would that have done for us ? None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him ; for the redemption of his soul is too precious. (Psalm xlix. 7, 8.) Though all the treasures of kings and emperors were offered, all would not avail to redeem a single soul. An
Page 245 - with us, as is written concerning the boy Samuel:—" Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.
Page 185 - it is written in the book of Job, chap, xxxiii. 29. " Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit:

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