Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul. ...John Farquhar Shaw, 27, Southampton Row, Russell Square; Edinburgh: J. Johnstone; W. P. Kennedy Dublin: J. Robinson; W. Curry, Jun. & Company, 1847 - Christian life - 337 pages |
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... affections , -more pretension in the profession than holiness and spiritu- ality in the walk ! And yet to this sad and melan- choly state it is possible for a Christian professor to be reduced . How should it lead the man of empty ...
... affections , -more pretension in the profession than holiness and spiritu- ality in the walk ! And yet to this sad and melan- choly state it is possible for a Christian professor to be reduced . How should it lead the man of empty ...
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... affection ? We think , far from it . There is common ground on which all Christians who hold the Head can stand . There are truths which can assimilate all our minds , and blend all our hearts . Why then should we stand aloof from the ...
... affection ? We think , far from it . There is common ground on which all Christians who hold the Head can stand . There are truths which can assimilate all our minds , and blend all our hearts . Why then should we stand aloof from the ...
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... affection in the heart of the Father , a welcome in the blood of Jesus , and a restorative power in the operation of the Spirit , and therefore every encouragement to arise and come to God . The first direction which we would give in ...
... affection in the heart of the Father , a welcome in the blood of Jesus , and a restorative power in the operation of the Spirit , and therefore every encouragement to arise and come to God . The first direction which we would give in ...
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... affections have wandered in quest of other and earthly objects of delight . But behold I come unto thee . Dost thou invite me ? Dost thou stretch out thy hand ? Dost thou bid me approach thee ? Dost thou say , ' Only acknowledge thine ...
... affections have wandered in quest of other and earthly objects of delight . But behold I come unto thee . Dost thou invite me ? Dost thou stretch out thy hand ? Dost thou bid me approach thee ? Dost thou say , ' Only acknowledge thine ...
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... , these enter the mind , disguised in the shape often of lawful undertakings and duties , and draw off the mind from God , and the affection from Christ . These , too , weaken and deaden faith 42 INCIPIENT DECLENSION .
... , these enter the mind , disguised in the shape often of lawful undertakings and duties , and draw off the mind from God , and the affection from Christ . These , too , weaken and deaden faith 42 INCIPIENT DECLENSION .
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Page 189 - They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Page 77 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 176 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
Page 244 - I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page 108 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 25 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 158 - I know thy works ; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it ; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Page 56 - God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Page 37 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 246 - And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep, through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.