Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul. ...John Farquhar Shaw, 27, Southampton Row, Russell Square; Edinburgh: J. Johnstone; W. P. Kennedy Dublin: J. Robinson; W. Curry, Jun. & Company, 1847 - 337 pages |
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... , and no consciousness of sweet return , he may suspect that his soul is in a state of secret and incipient back- sliding from God . Satisfying and feeding his soul -if feeding it may be called - with a lifeless 18 INCIPIENT DECLENSION .
... , and no consciousness of sweet return , he may suspect that his soul is in a state of secret and incipient back- sliding from God . Satisfying and feeding his soul -if feeding it may be called - with a lifeless 18 INCIPIENT DECLENSION .
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Octavius Winslow. -if feeding it may be called - with a lifeless form ; what stronger symptom needs he of his real state ? A healthy , growing state of religion in the soul de- mands more for its nourishment and support than this . A ...
Octavius Winslow. -if feeding it may be called - with a lifeless form ; what stronger symptom needs he of his real state ? A healthy , growing state of religion in the soul de- mands more for its nourishment and support than this . A ...
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... called him , but he gave me no answer . " ver . 6. Weary with waiting so long , grieved at the discovery he made of her deep declension , and wounded by her cold repulse , he withdrew his sensible , loving presence , and left her to the ...
... called him , but he gave me no answer . " ver . 6. Weary with waiting so long , grieved at the discovery he made of her deep declension , and wounded by her cold repulse , he withdrew his sensible , loving presence , and left her to the ...
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... called you into the grace of Christ . How , after that ye have known God , or rather are known of God , how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly ele- ments ? I am afraid of you , lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain . Where is ...
... called you into the grace of Christ . How , after that ye have known God , or rather are known of God , how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly ele- ments ? I am afraid of you , lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain . Where is ...
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... called you out of darkness into his marvellous light . " Would you be ' strong in faith , giving glory to God ? -- then yield obedience to the voice which , with an unearthly tongue , exclaims to every professing child of God , " Be not ...
... called you out of darkness into his marvellous light . " Would you be ' strong in faith , giving glory to God ? -- then yield obedience to the voice which , with an unearthly tongue , exclaims to every professing child of God , " Be not ...
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Page 189 - They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Page 77 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 176 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
Page 244 - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page 108 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 25 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 158 - I know thy works ; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it ; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Page 56 - God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Page 37 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 246 - And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep, through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.