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... pious affec- tions might consist with the disbelief even of those doctrines which he had been in the habit of regarding as essential to the christian character . His first lesson , therefore , was a lesson of charity ; and it produced a ...
... pious affec- tions might consist with the disbelief even of those doctrines which he had been in the habit of regarding as essential to the christian character . His first lesson , therefore , was a lesson of charity ; and it produced a ...
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... pious be- liever with inexpressible delight . For , from him , or through him , must we receive all those impressions of moral excellence which constitute the image of God in the soul ; and without which , we never can , in any degree ...
... pious be- liever with inexpressible delight . For , from him , or through him , must we receive all those impressions of moral excellence which constitute the image of God in the soul ; and without which , we never can , in any degree ...
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... pious exertion . It has for its object , the immediate subjection of those turbulent dis- positions of our nature , which would urge us to acts of violence . It particularly keeps in view the suppression of the passion of anger ; and ...
... pious exertion . It has for its object , the immediate subjection of those turbulent dis- positions of our nature , which would urge us to acts of violence . It particularly keeps in view the suppression of the passion of anger ; and ...
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... pious control . Indiffer- ence , a placid disposition , and an equanimity of temper , may all grace , or seem to grace , the human character , without that incessant struggle of determined virtue , that pious firm- ness and moral ...
... pious control . Indiffer- ence , a placid disposition , and an equanimity of temper , may all grace , or seem to grace , the human character , without that incessant struggle of determined virtue , that pious firm- ness and moral ...
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... pious gratitude and respect , anointed his feet with costly ointment , and wiped them with her hair . Judas , beholding this act of the pious Mary , and , through his avarice , interpreting it into a wasteful extravagance , exclaimed ...
... pious gratitude and respect , anointed his feet with costly ointment , and wiped them with her hair . Judas , beholding this act of the pious Mary , and , through his avarice , interpreting it into a wasteful extravagance , exclaimed ...
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Page v - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 63 - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers...
Page iv - And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven, and I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page v - And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre...
Page 283 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 8 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page iii - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 181 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth : But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another?
Page 131 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 71 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.