Discourses on Various Points of Christian Faith and Practice: Most of which Were Delivered in the Chapel of the Oratoire in Paris in the Spring of M.DCCC.XVI |
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... future world of light , whose inhabitants will know even as they are known . Let not such , my brethren , be the pre- sumptuous character of our speculations . Let us remember , that here " we walk by faith , and not by sight . " Let us ...
... future world of light , whose inhabitants will know even as they are known . Let not such , my brethren , be the pre- sumptuous character of our speculations . Let us remember , that here " we walk by faith , and not by sight . " Let us ...
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... future world . Unless we here become " fellow - citizens with the saints , and of the household of God , " it is most cer- tain we shall never be admitted to " the general assembly and church of the first - born in heaven . " Unless ...
... future world . Unless we here become " fellow - citizens with the saints , and of the household of God , " it is most cer- tain we shall never be admitted to " the general assembly and church of the first - born in heaven . " Unless ...
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... future . I speak now of the man of the world - of one whose sole purpose is to make the most of human life , to secure the greatest possible share of its pleasures , its riches , its honours , or its ease . Scrutinize his daily conduct ...
... future . I speak now of the man of the world - of one whose sole purpose is to make the most of human life , to secure the greatest possible share of its pleasures , its riches , its honours , or its ease . Scrutinize his daily conduct ...
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... future governs all the conduct of life . Why should it not govern the concerns of the soul ? It is folly to bound our views by the setting sun : why not extend them beyond the grave ? It is prudent to make provision for old age : why ...
... future governs all the conduct of life . Why should it not govern the concerns of the soul ? It is folly to bound our views by the setting sun : why not extend them beyond the grave ? It is prudent to make provision for old age : why ...
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... they all aim at something future , and they hope to pro- cure it by the sacrifice of a present good . This is their solace . This , in fact , is the sum of their actual happiness . Walk the rounds of life , and 24 DISCOURSE II .
... they all aim at something future , and they hope to pro- cure it by the sacrifice of a present good . This is their solace . This , in fact , is the sum of their actual happiness . Walk the rounds of life , and 24 DISCOURSE II .
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Page 187 - And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people—Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk...
Page 6 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 226 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his 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 233 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 119 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 186 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 111 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 8 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David...
Page 182 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 64 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6. And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.