The Christian Spectator, Volume 3Howe & Spalding, 1821 - Theology |
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... ness of the present state , is founded on an utter misapprehension of the nature either of true religion or of the proper business of the world . The subject becomes still more im- portant if we reflect , that the opinion is not ...
... ness of the present state , is founded on an utter misapprehension of the nature either of true religion or of the proper business of the world . The subject becomes still more im- portant if we reflect , that the opinion is not ...
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... ness , has not only required us to glo- rify him , but has established a perfect coincidence between that end , and our own best good . Amid all the varying scenes and duties of life , the alternative can never arise , when one real ...
... ness , has not only required us to glo- rify him , but has established a perfect coincidence between that end , and our own best good . Amid all the varying scenes and duties of life , the alternative can never arise , when one real ...
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... ness to repeat his brutal indulg . nce ; consider thus minutely any course of sensual indulgence , and say , is this to use the world as not abusing it ? Con- sider these things again , and say , is the religion which proscribes intem ...
... ness to repeat his brutal indulg . nce ; consider thus minutely any course of sensual indulgence , and say , is this to use the world as not abusing it ? Con- sider these things again , and say , is the religion which proscribes intem ...
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... ness of the world ? Is it barely a competent and comfortable liveli- hood ? Is it not wealth , more than enough for the supply of every rea- sonable want ? Can he shew this re- sult of his occupied hours and days , as that which dire ...
... ness of the world ? Is it barely a competent and comfortable liveli- hood ? Is it not wealth , more than enough for the supply of every rea- sonable want ? Can he shew this re- sult of his occupied hours and days , as that which dire ...
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... ness its consecration to communion with God , and to the advancement of his cause . Instead of talents per- verted to increase the guilt and mise- ries of men , instead of wealth squan- dered in luxury , or hoarded by ava- rice and ...
... ness its consecration to communion with God , and to the advancement of his cause . Instead of talents per- verted to increase the guilt and mise- ries of men , instead of wealth squan- dered in luxury , or hoarded by ava- rice and ...
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Page 397 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 396 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 281 - Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Page 501 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 223 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 336 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 281 - 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 244 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 397 - Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind : neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock, /fnd when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 281 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.