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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... 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 consequences of her sad departure . The Lord never withdraws himself from his ...
... 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 consequences of her sad departure . The Lord never withdraws himself from his ...
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... Grieved at the discovery , he addresses to them an affectionate and faithful epistle , expressive of his astonishment and pain , and proposing a solemn and searching inquiry . " I marvel , " he writes , " that ye are so soon removed ...
... Grieved at the discovery , he addresses to them an affectionate and faithful epistle , expressive of his astonishment and pain , and proposing a solemn and searching inquiry . " I marvel , " he writes , " that ye are so soon removed ...
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... grieved , slighted and quenched , must enter you anew , and seal , and sanctify , and re - convert you . O arise , and pray , and agonise for the outpouring of the Spirit upon your soul ; give up your lifeless religion , your form ...
... grieved , slighted and quenched , must enter you anew , and seal , and sanctify , and re - convert you . O arise , and pray , and agonise for the outpouring of the Spirit upon your soul ; give up your lifeless religion , your form ...
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... grieved , and God will be dishonored . Let this precious truth ever be before the mind , - " We walk by faith , not by sight . " Faith is an essential part of the spiritual armor : " Above all , taking the shield of faith , wherewith ye ...
... grieved , and God will be dishonored . Let this precious truth ever be before the mind , - " We walk by faith , not by sight . " Faith is an essential part of the spiritual armor : " Above all , taking the shield of faith , wherewith ye ...
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... grieved in his in- fluence ? Is there not a more marked dependence on creature power , than upon the power of the Spirit ? Do not sermons and books , and reports , sadly forget to recognise and honor him as the grand source of all ...
... grieved in his in- fluence ? Is there not a more marked dependence on creature power , than upon the power of the Spirit ? Do not sermons and books , and reports , sadly forget to recognise and honor him as the grand source of all ...
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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.