Selections from the World's Devotional Classics, Volume 7Robert Scott, George William Gilmore Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1916 - Devotional literature |
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... walk holily , i.e. , not after the flesh , but after the Spirit ( Rom . 8 : 1 ) . It is also the ruin of souls to seek only remission of sins by faith in Christ , and holiness by our endeavors , according to the terms of the law ...
... walk holily , i.e. , not after the flesh , but after the Spirit ( Rom . 8 : 1 ) . It is also the ruin of souls to seek only remission of sins by faith in Christ , and holiness by our endeavors , according to the terms of the law ...
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... walk upon the water ( Matt . 14:29 ) . And here we are not to meddle with God's secret of predestination , or the purpose of his will to give the grace of faith to some rather than others ; but only with his revealed will , in his ...
... walk upon the water ( Matt . 14:29 ) . And here we are not to meddle with God's secret of predestination , or the purpose of his will to give the grace of faith to some rather than others ; but only with his revealed will , in his ...
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... walking in sin and by misspending the precious time of their health and strength , which is most meet for the performance of this great work . They highly provoke God never to give them time or grace to repent hereafter . Others imagine ...
... walking in sin and by misspending the precious time of their health and strength , which is most meet for the performance of this great work . They highly provoke God never to give them time or grace to repent hereafter . Others imagine ...
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... walk by it , and to resist the devil , and to quench all his fiery darts by it , and also to grow in grace and to perfect holiness in the fear of God ; for we are kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation ( 1 Pet . 1 ...
... walk by it , and to resist the devil , and to quench all his fiery darts by it , and also to grow in grace and to perfect holiness in the fear of God ; for we are kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation ( 1 Pet . 1 ...
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... walking in the country , I was much in the thoughts of this , " But how if the day of grace is past ? " And to aggravate my trouble , the tempter pre- sented to my mind those good people of Bed- ford , and suggested thus unto me , That ...
... walking in the country , I was much in the thoughts of this , " But how if the day of grace is past ? " And to aggravate my trouble , the tempter pre- sented to my mind those good people of Bed- ford , and suggested thus unto me , That ...
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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.