 Wherefore, we acknowledge a dutiful necessity of doing well, but the meritorious dignity of doing well we utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the Law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth,...  The Augustan review - Page 6841815Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Pownall Boultbee - 1877 - 400 pages
...rewarded ? . . . We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...not call God to reckoning as if we had Him in our debt-books ; our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities and pardon our... | |
 | James Bardsley - Celebrities - 1877 - 270 pages
...fully and clearly of the nature of Christian experience and selfknowledge. " The little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...nothing in the world for it ; we dare not call God to a reckoning as if we had Him in our debtbooks. Our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to bear with... | |
 | Henry Christmas - 1878 - 346 pages
...utterly renounce. We know how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to a reckoning, aa if we had Him in our debt-books : our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to bear... | |
 | Manna - 1880 - 160 pages
...utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law. The little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...not call God to reckoning, as if we had Him in our debt-books : our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities — to pardon... | |
 | Missions - 1824 - 642 pages
...renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...reckoning as if we had him in our debt books. Our continual suit to him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities, and pardon our oflences." LAY... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - Presbyterian Church - 1883 - 250 pages
...The language of Richard Hooker is found in the mouth of every child of God : " The little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...not call God to reckoning, as if we had Him in our debt-books ; our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to hear with our infirmities, and pardon our... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1893 - 632 pages
...renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to a reckoning, as if we had Him in our debt-books ; our continual suit to Him is, and must be, to bear... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - Presbyterian Church - 1893 - 296 pages
...miseries ! How little taste of the sweet influence of His tender mercy do we feel ! The little fruit we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to a reckoning as if we had Him in our debt-books; our continued suit to Him is, and must be, to bear... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 700 pages
...Christian building stands. ' Whereas,' to use the words of the judicious Hooker, • the little fruit we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and...unsound; we put no confidence at all in it; we challenge * *« See Homily ca Salvation;"- , nothing nothing in the world for it ; we dare not call God to reckoning,... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble - 814 pages
...renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth °, corrupt...nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to a reckoning°, as if we had him in our debt-books : our continual suit to him is, and must be, to bear... | |
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