Letters to an Anxious Inquirer: Designed to Relieve the Difficulties of a Friend Under the Serious Impressions |
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... influence with us in estimating the work as highly as we do , and which might not appear to others under circumstances less exciting , so valuable as we have ventured to pronounce it . But this oc- curred at least five years ago , and ...
... influence with us in estimating the work as highly as we do , and which might not appear to others under circumstances less exciting , so valuable as we have ventured to pronounce it . But this oc- curred at least five years ago , and ...
Page xix
... influence of renewing grace ; while many others clustered round the standard of determined opposition . Conflicting necessarily with those whose views and feel- ings were in complete antagonism to his own , his course afforded another ...
... influence of renewing grace ; while many others clustered round the standard of determined opposition . Conflicting necessarily with those whose views and feel- ings were in complete antagonism to his own , his course afforded another ...
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... influence towards these effects , but still the mover of all this mischief is that most secret of agents - pride . There is no need of de- fining , no need of explaining the operation of this principle ; and it is wholly useless to quar ...
... influence towards these effects , but still the mover of all this mischief is that most secret of agents - pride . There is no need of de- fining , no need of explaining the operation of this principle ; and it is wholly useless to quar ...
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... influence of little events may reach but a little way . But at this period , when the heart receives an impression from every thing that can reach it — when ten- dencies of good or evil supplant each other so easily - it is not ...
... influence of little events may reach but a little way . But at this period , when the heart receives an impression from every thing that can reach it — when ten- dencies of good or evil supplant each other so easily - it is not ...
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... influence . And are all these things really so ? Are you singled out from the rest of the world , and placed on a spot which is soon to witness a change of infinite magnitude , in your present and future being ? Yes ; and your own mind ...
... influence . And are all these things really so ? Are you singled out from the rest of the world , and placed on a spot which is soon to witness a change of infinite magnitude , in your present and future being ? Yes ; and your own mind ...
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Page 283 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 255 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 200 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 151 - And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD : for he is an holy God ; he is a jealous God ; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Page 200 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all : yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness. is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 156 - For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Page 206 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).
Page 147 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.
Page 171 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 201 - AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS.