A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real ChristiansKey and Biddle, 1835 - 224 strani |
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Stran 264 - The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men ; apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.
Stran 290 - I know thy works ; that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die ; for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Stran 96 - upon you. Then shall they call upon me., but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
Stran 244 - His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But O ! Thou BOUNTEOUS GIVER of all good ! Thou art of all thy gifts Thyself the crown: Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor, And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. CHAPTER
Stran 244 - art the Source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, ETERNAL WORD ; From Thee departing, they are lost, and rove At random, without honor, hope, or peace: From Thee is all that soothes the life of man ; His high endeavor, and his glad success j His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Stran i - How charming is DIVINE PHILOSOPHY ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull Fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. MILTON.
Stran 234 - me ye can do nothing.'—'By grace ye are saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God ; not of works, lest any man should boast: for we are his workmanship, created in
Stran 96 - out my hand, and no man regarded ; hut ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity,
Stran 288 - The harp, and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts ; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands V
Stran 142 - we may be filled with joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.' Let us diligently put in practice the directions already given for cherishing and cultivating the principle of the love of Christ. With this view let us