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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... true believer in Jesus must ac- knowledge . The existing necessity for such a work has long im- pressed itself upon the Author's mind . While other and abler writers are employing their pens , either in defending the out - posts of ...
... true believer in Jesus must ac- knowledge . The existing necessity for such a work has long im- pressed itself upon the Author's mind . While other and abler writers are employing their pens , either in defending the out - posts of ...
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... true grace . Divine grace in the soul can never really die ; true faith can never utterly and finally fail . We are speaking now but of their decay . A flower may droop , and yet live ; a plant may be sickly , and yet not die . In the ...
... true grace . Divine grace in the soul can never really die ; true faith can never utterly and finally fail . We are speaking now but of their decay . A flower may droop , and yet live ; a plant may be sickly , and yet not die . In the ...
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... true condition of the soul . The judgment shall lose none of its light , but the heart much of its fervor ; the truths of revelation , especially the doctrines of grace , shall occupy the same prominent position as to their value and ...
... true condition of the soul . The judgment shall lose none of its light , but the heart much of its fervor ; the truths of revelation , especially the doctrines of grace , shall occupy the same prominent position as to their value and ...
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... true state of his soul before God ! Once more : This state of secret departure from God may exist in connexion with an outward and rigid observance of the means of grace ; and yet there shall be no spiritual use of , or enjoyment in ...
... true state of his soul before God ! Once more : This state of secret departure from God may exist in connexion with an outward and rigid observance of the means of grace ; and yet there shall be no spiritual use of , or enjoyment in ...
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... true believers are all 66 one in Christ Jesus ? " This will be so where there is a deepening spirituality . And its absence marks a decay of grace , a waning of the life of God in the soul . We have thus endeavored to bring to view some ...
... true believers are all 66 one in Christ Jesus ? " This will be so where there is a deepening spirituality . And its absence marks a decay of grace , a waning of the life of God in the soul . We have thus endeavored to bring to view some ...
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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.