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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... eternal glory . We say , then , true grace is indestructible grace ; it can never die . But it may decay ; and to the consideration of this solemn and important subject , the reader's serious attention is now invited 10 INCIPIENT ...
... eternal glory . We say , then , true grace is indestructible grace ; it can never die . But it may decay ; and to the consideration of this solemn and important subject , the reader's serious attention is now invited 10 INCIPIENT ...
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... eternal life to as many as the Father had given him . Christ possesses this life , ( John v . 26 ; ) Christ communi- cates it , ( John v . 25 ; ) Christ sustains it , ( John vi . 57 ; ) and Christ crowns it with eternal glory , ( John ...
... eternal life to as many as the Father had given him . Christ possesses this life , ( John v . 26 ; ) Christ communi- cates it , ( John v . 25 ; ) Christ sustains it , ( John vi . 57 ; ) and Christ crowns it with eternal glory , ( John ...
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... eternal life ; and they shall never perish , neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand . " John x . 28. Let the sheep and the lambs of the ' little flock ' rejoice that the Shepherd lives , and that because he lives they shall ...
... eternal life ; and they shall never perish , neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand . " John x . 28. Let the sheep and the lambs of the ' little flock ' rejoice that the Shepherd lives , and that because he lives they shall ...
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... eternal relation in which he stands to the intelligent universe , render it irreversibly obligatory on every creature to love him with a supreme , paramount , holy , and unreserved affection . Love , too , is the great influential ...
... eternal relation in which he stands to the intelligent universe , render it irreversibly obligatory on every creature to love him with a supreme , paramount , holy , and unreserved affection . Love , too , is the great influential ...
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... eternal spring , welled in the bosom of Deity ; heaven will be its dwelling - place God its source , the glorified spirit its subject , and eter- nity its duration . For one moment let the Christian reader call to mind the period and ...
... eternal spring , welled in the bosom of Deity ; heaven will be its dwelling - place God its source , the glorified spirit its subject , and eter- nity its duration . For one moment let the Christian reader call to mind the period and ...
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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.