The duty and doctrine of the servant of Christ, a sermon. To which are added notes

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Página 40 - Love him that made thee with all thy strength, and forsake not his ministers. 31 Fear the Lord, and honour the priest; and give him his portion, as it is commanded...
Página 41 - Seneca, and all the old philosophers; herein they are regenerated, and take a new name and nature ; digged up in the wilderness of nature, and, dipped in this living spring, they are planted, and flourish, in the Paradise of God. By Christianity I intend that universal habit of grace which is wrought in a soul by the regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the whole creature is resigned up into the divine will and love, and all its actions designed to the obedience and glory of its Maker.
Página 66 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God. And yet there are not three Gods, but one God.
Página 48 - Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Página 38 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee.
Página 51 - Baptism. Preventing grace must go before, to work in the man faith and repentance, which are qualifications previous to Baptism, and necessary to render it salutary. Those first addresses, or influential visits, of the Holy Spirit, turning and preparing the heart of man, are the preparative...
Página 50 - He went into very high notions of lengthened devotions, in which he continued many hours a day : he would often pray in his family two hours at a time, and had an unexhausted copiousness that way. What thought soever struck his fancy during these effusions, he looked on it as an answer of prayer, and was wholly determined by it.

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