The Treatise on Religious AffectionsAmer. Tract Soc., 1824 - 276 pages |
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... humility and reverence , can be of no further use than as it has some tendency to affect our own hearts , or the hearts of others . And the duty of singing praises seems to be ap- pointed wholly to excite and express religious affec ...
... humility and reverence , can be of no further use than as it has some tendency to affect our own hearts , or the hearts of others . And the duty of singing praises seems to be ap- pointed wholly to excite and express religious affec ...
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... humility , his patience , his meekness , his submission , his obedience , his love , and his compassion , are presented to our contemplation in a manner the most adapted to move our affections . There also the hateful nature of sin ...
... humility , his patience , his meekness , his submission , his obedience , his love , and his compassion , are presented to our contemplation in a manner the most adapted to move our affections . There also the hateful nature of sin ...
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... humility . With respect to the former of these , it is evident from Scripture that we may possess a kind of religious love , and yet have no saving grace . Christ , speaking of those who possess this kind of affection , asserts , that ...
... humility . With respect to the former of these , it is evident from Scripture that we may possess a kind of religious love , and yet have no saving grace . Christ , speaking of those who possess this kind of affection , asserts , that ...
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... are yet his own children , are not unfrequently the subjects . It is abundantly evident that there is false humility , as well as false comfort . Saul , though a very wicked man , of a Part II . ] 67 TO DISTINGUISH AFFECTIONS .
... are yet his own children , are not unfrequently the subjects . It is abundantly evident that there is false humility , as well as false comfort . Saul , though a very wicked man , of a Part II . ] 67 TO DISTINGUISH AFFECTIONS .
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... humility consists in such a self - renunciation , or abasement , as becomes a creature , in himself exceedingly sinful , under a dis- pensation of grace . This frame of mind is a most essential circumstance in true religion . The whole ...
... humility consists in such a self - renunciation , or abasement , as becomes a creature , in himself exceedingly sinful , under a dis- pensation of grace . This frame of mind is a most essential circumstance in true religion . The whole ...
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Page 76 - But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Page 13 - 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 184 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 40 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: ' when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 57 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Page 258 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 212 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 94 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 19 - How amiable are thy tabernacles,- O Lord of hosts ! " My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and, my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 121 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.