Advice to a Young Christian: On the Importance of Aiming at an Elevated Standard of PietyCarvill, 1831 - 196 Seiten |
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... mark , and press towards it , with all the energy of an Olympic racer , struggling in competition for the goal ? Now , I warn you not to listen to such cold predictions . They who make them from their own experience , may have been ...
... mark , and press towards it , with all the energy of an Olympic racer , struggling in competition for the goal ? Now , I warn you not to listen to such cold predictions . They who make them from their own experience , may have been ...
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... marks to so great a length on the nature of prayer ; but I have been insensibly led along , by my anxiety to impress upon your mind the importance of the subject . By personal ex- perience , I have , I trust , learned its value . I have ...
... marks to so great a length on the nature of prayer ; but I have been insensibly led along , by my anxiety to impress upon your mind the importance of the subject . By personal ex- perience , I have , I trust , learned its value . I have ...
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... mark of the prize of your high calling . Consider all the ground you have passed , as nothing , so long as the goal is still at a distance ; so long as you come short of perfection in Christ Jesus . But I have one remark , before I ...
... mark of the prize of your high calling . Consider all the ground you have passed , as nothing , so long as the goal is still at a distance ; so long as you come short of perfection in Christ Jesus . But I have one remark , before I ...
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... mark . Some persons are satisfied with just enough of religion , to ease the conscience and give en- couragement for a feeble hope . They never rise above this grade , nor ever manifest more than a sort of negative character . Self ...
... mark . Some persons are satisfied with just enough of religion , to ease the conscience and give en- couragement for a feeble hope . They never rise above this grade , nor ever manifest more than a sort of negative character . Self ...
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... marks out the true disciple of Christ , with unerring exactness . The evidence is di- rect and indirect , positive and negative , in ex- ample or embodied principle . The direct evidence , is that which consists in a record of the ...
... marks out the true disciple of Christ , with unerring exactness . The evidence is di- rect and indirect , positive and negative , in ex- ample or embodied principle . The direct evidence , is that which consists in a record of the ...
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Seite 110 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Seite 64 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Seite 73 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Seite 108 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Seite 98 - The men of grace have found Glory begun below ; Celestial fruits on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow. 4 The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets.
Seite 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 89 - ... connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Seite 87 - Unto Him that loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood ; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Seite 11 - Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right ; And I hate every false way.
Seite 18 - Christianity consists in the fruits of the Spirit, which are " love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.