The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick, Volume 7 |
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... duty , and his chief happiness . Man's chief duty is to glorify God : 1 Cor . x . 31 , " Whether therefore ye eat or drink , or whatsoever ye do , do all to the glory of God . " Man glorifies God , by thinking , speaking , and living to ...
... duty , and his chief happiness . Man's chief duty is to glorify God : 1 Cor . x . 31 , " Whether therefore ye eat or drink , or whatsoever ye do , do all to the glory of God . " Man glorifies God , by thinking , speaking , and living to ...
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... duty . Christ's testament is twofold : namely , the Old Testament , and the New Testament . The books beginning with Genesis , and ending with Malachi , are Christ's Old Testament : those beginning with Matthew , and ending with the ...
... duty . Christ's testament is twofold : namely , the Old Testament , and the New Testament . The books beginning with Genesis , and ending with Malachi , are Christ's Old Testament : those beginning with Matthew , and ending with the ...
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... duty to do . " The only way he could have claimed it , was by compact , namely , in virtue of the covenant - pro- mise made to this work . The penalty of the covenant of works was death , Gen. ii . 17 , forecited . The death threatened ...
... duty to do . " The only way he could have claimed it , was by compact , namely , in virtue of the covenant - pro- mise made to this work . The penalty of the covenant of works was death , Gen. ii . 17 , forecited . The death threatened ...
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... duty , abide fast on him as long as he is in that state : Gen. vi . 5 , " And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con- tinually . " Eph . ii ...
... duty , abide fast on him as long as he is in that state : Gen. vi . 5 , " And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con- tinually . " Eph . ii ...
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... duties of holiness . : Habitual sanctification is the work of the Spirit , whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God . Sanctification is not a bare amending of our life ; but it is also a renewing of our nature ...
... duties of holiness . : Habitual sanctification is the work of the Spirit , whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God . Sanctification is not a bare amending of our life ; but it is also a renewing of our nature ...
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Page 121 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar ; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Page 86 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 97 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also...
Page 126 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 43 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, What shall we say then?
Page 235 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 386 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 79 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many ; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Page 142 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 34 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart : who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.