Selections from the World's Devotional Classics, Volume 7Robert Scott, George William Gilmore Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1916 - Devotional literature |
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... blessings wherewith God blesseth his people in Christ are the peculiar portion of them whom " God hath chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world " ( Eph . 1 : 3 , 4 ) , yet we must necessarily trust on Christ for those saving ...
... blessings wherewith God blesseth his people in Christ are the peculiar portion of them whom " God hath chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world " ( Eph . 1 : 3 , 4 ) , yet we must necessarily trust on Christ for those saving ...
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... blessings of the birthright ; yet they shall not be rejected that seek the enjoyment of Christ and his salvation as their only happi- ness . If you come unto Christ's vineyard at the eleventh hour of the day , you shall have your penny ...
... blessings of the birthright ; yet they shall not be rejected that seek the enjoyment of Christ and his salvation as their only happi- ness . If you come unto Christ's vineyard at the eleventh hour of the day , you shall have your penny ...
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... blessed apostle ( Phil . 3 : 3 , 7 , 8 ) . We must not be grieved that we have nothing to trust upon besides Christ for our salvation ; but rather we are to rejoice that we need nothing else , and that we have a sure foundation to rely ...
... blessed apostle ( Phil . 3 : 3 , 7 , 8 ) . We must not be grieved that we have nothing to trust upon besides Christ for our salvation ; but rather we are to rejoice that we need nothing else , and that we have a sure foundation to rely ...
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... blessed condition of him that was such a one . Therefore I would often make it my busi- ness to be going again and again into the company of these poor people , for I could not stay away . And the more I went among them , the more I did ...
... blessed condition of him that was such a one . Therefore I would often make it my busi- ness to be going again and again into the company of these poor people , for I could not stay away . And the more I went among them , the more I did ...
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... blessed be God , who put it into my heart to cry to him to be kept and directed , still distrusting mine own wisdom ; for I have since seen even the effects of that prayer in his preserving me , not only from ranting errors , but from ...
... blessed be God , who put it into my heart to cry to him to be kept and directed , still distrusting mine own wisdom ; for I have since seen even the effects of that prayer in his preserving me , not only from ranting errors , but from ...
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Page 98 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 112 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Page 128 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 128 - If we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin ; but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 28 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 140 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 192 - I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men...
Page 88 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil ; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage,
Page 95 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 164 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.