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... wish of the Author to encourage the inquirer to persevere in the pursuit of divine truth ; and to show the suitableness of the Gospel , in explaining and removing those difficulties which dis- tract and distress the mind . He has also ...
... wish of the Author to encourage the inquirer to persevere in the pursuit of divine truth ; and to show the suitableness of the Gospel , in explaining and removing those difficulties which dis- tract and distress the mind . He has also ...
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... wish is , not only to know the source of instruction , but also the manner in which he ought to pursue his inquiries . We remark , then , that this inquiry should be made with a deep conviction of the importance of the subject . Till ...
... wish is , not only to know the source of instruction , but also the manner in which he ought to pursue his inquiries . We remark , then , that this inquiry should be made with a deep conviction of the importance of the subject . Till ...
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... wishes to understand , and be able to bring home to his own heart , the deep things of God . Let him , how- ever persevere . He knows that worldly men , would not be prevented by trifling difficulties , from pur- suing any object that ...
... wishes to understand , and be able to bring home to his own heart , the deep things of God . Let him , how- ever persevere . He knows that worldly men , would not be prevented by trifling difficulties , from pur- suing any object that ...
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... wish to expose the errors of men who call themselves ministers of the gospel , or to deal out invective , because their conduct is " not according to godliness , " but to execute a serious and important duty relative to others . Were ...
... wish to expose the errors of men who call themselves ministers of the gospel , or to deal out invective , because their conduct is " not according to godliness , " but to execute a serious and important duty relative to others . Were ...
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... wish to take a more favourable view of what is evil in human nature than the word of God war- rants him to take , and to estimate too highly what is benevolent and amiable in man . He acknow- ledges that men are sinners , but at the ...
... wish to take a more favourable view of what is evil in human nature than the word of God war- rants him to take , and to estimate too highly what is benevolent and amiable in man . He acknow- ledges that men are sinners , but at the ...
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Page 171 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Page 137 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 102 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 128 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 168 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 126 - And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 136 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 98 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 40 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 221 - For the love of money is the root of all evil : which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.