Selections from the World's Devotional Classics, Volume 7Robert Scott, George William Gilmore Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1916 - Devotional literature |
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... things of the flesh and the world ; when Satan doth his utmost , by his own sug- gestions , and by false teachers , and by worldly 1 allurements and terrors , to hinder the sincere performance of 8 Devotional Classics.
... things of the flesh and the world ; when Satan doth his utmost , by his own sug- gestions , and by false teachers , and by worldly 1 allurements and terrors , to hinder the sincere performance of 8 Devotional Classics.
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... doth make it easy or suffer it to be difficult , according as he is pleased to com- municate his grace in various degrees unto our souls . 3. Tho we can not possibly perform this great work in a right manner until the Spirit of God work ...
... doth make it easy or suffer it to be difficult , according as he is pleased to com- municate his grace in various degrees unto our souls . 3. Tho we can not possibly perform this great work in a right manner until the Spirit of God work ...
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... doth , in effect , trust on him for his own salva- tion , which is inseparably joined with the grace of saving faith . Tho the Spirit worketh other duties in us by faith , yet he worketh faith in us immediately by hearing , knowing ...
... doth , in effect , trust on him for his own salva- tion , which is inseparably joined with the grace of saving faith . Tho the Spirit worketh other duties in us by faith , yet he worketh faith in us immediately by hearing , knowing ...
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... doth or will work in us savingly ; and we shall be willing to set upon the work , if we be Christ's people ; for " thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power " ( Ps . 110 : 3 ) . It is enough that God discovereth to us ...
... doth or will work in us savingly ; and we shall be willing to set upon the work , if we be Christ's people ; for " thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power " ( Ps . 110 : 3 ) . It is enough that God discovereth to us ...
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... doth not really receive Christ into the heart , and will not produce love or any true obedience - such as Simon Magus had ( Acts 8:13 , 23 ) , for , notwithstanding his faith , he was in the " gall of bitterness and in the bond of ...
... doth not really receive Christ into the heart , and will not produce love or any true obedience - such as Simon Magus had ( Acts 8:13 , 23 ) , for , notwithstanding his faith , he was in the " gall of bitterness and in the bond of ...
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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.