The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Or The Nature and Excellency of the Christian Religion ...F.and C.]Rivington, 1792 |
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Page 47 - Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust : cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Page 4 - They know by experience, that true religion is an union of the soul with God, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul ; or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed within us.
Page 62 - The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens fhall pafs away with a great noife, and the elements fhall melt with fervent heat, the earth alfo and the works that are therein (hall fee burnt up.
Page 81 - SPIRIT in the inner man ; that CHRIST may dwell in our hearts by faith ; that we being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the Breadth, and Length, and Depth, and Height ; and to know the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge, that we might be filled with all the fulness of GOD.
Page 59 - Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Page 65 - That before we betake ourselves to rest, we renew and examine all the passages of the day, that we may have the comfort of what we have done aright, and may redress what we find to have been amiss, and make the shipwrecks of one day be as marks to direct our course in another.
Page 93 - God. grant that the consideration of what thou art, and what we ourselves are, may both humble and lay us low before thee, and also stir up in us the strongest and most ardent aspirations towards thee.
Page 76 - Son of God came down to this lower world to live among us, and die for us, that he might bring us to a portion of the same felicity ; and think how he hath overcome the sharpness of death, and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers...
Page 59 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and fharper than any two-edged fword, piercing even to the dividing afunder of foul and fpirit, and of the joints and marrow; and is a difcerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.