A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy LifeJ.M. Dent & Company, 1906 - 355 páginas |
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... mean this comparison , betwixt people seem- ingly good and professed rakes , but betwixt people of sober lives . Let us take an instance in two modest women let it be supposed that one of them is careful of times of devotion , and ...
... mean this comparison , betwixt people seem- ingly good and professed rakes , but betwixt people of sober lives . Let us take an instance in two modest women let it be supposed that one of them is careful of times of devotion , and ...
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... means of piety and holiness , or made so many parts of a wise and religious life . As he thus removes from all appearance of evil , so he hastens and aspires after every instance of goodness . He does not ask what is allowable and ...
... means of piety and holiness , or made so many parts of a wise and religious life . As he thus removes from all appearance of evil , so he hastens and aspires after every instance of goodness . He does not ask what is allowable and ...
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... means of grace we should have power to avoid ; and that we have not that per- fection , which our present state of grace makes us capable of , because we do not so much as intend to have it . It only teaches us that the reason why you ...
... means of grace we should have power to avoid ; and that we have not that per- fection , which our present state of grace makes us capable of , because we do not so much as intend to have it . It only teaches us that the reason why you ...
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... means of being a gainer by all that I undertook . But what is the reason that I have brought none of these tempers to religion ? What is the reason that I , who have so often talked of the necessity of rules , and methods , and ...
... means of being a gainer by all that I undertook . But what is the reason that I have brought none of these tempers to religion ? What is the reason that I , who have so often talked of the necessity of rules , and methods , and ...
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... means of rendering our souls more exalted and divine , but we are forbidden to lay up treasures upon earth ; † and can we think that it is not as bad to be vain of those treasures which we are forbidden to lay up , as to be vain of ...
... means of rendering our souls more exalted and divine , but we are forbidden to lay up treasures upon earth ; † and can we think that it is not as bad to be vain of those treasures which we are forbidden to lay up , as to be vain of ...
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Página 56 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 164 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Página 126 - Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed ; and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Página 269 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Página 56 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Página 94 - Lord: 33 But he that is married caretb for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit : but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Página 33 - Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Página 311 - But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Página 78 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.