A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of ChristiansT. Bedlington, 1821 - 274 páginas |
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Página xvii
... turning his desire into a tasting and sensibility of the good and evil of this earthly , bestial world . Now here are two things raised up in man , instead of the life of God . - First ; self or selfishness , brought forth by his ...
... turning his desire into a tasting and sensibility of the good and evil of this earthly , bestial world . Now here are two things raised up in man , instead of the life of God . - First ; self or selfishness , brought forth by his ...
Página xviii
... turn our self love into self abhorrence , and force us to call upon God , to save us from ourselves , to give us a new life , new light , and new spirit in Christ . O happy famine ! might the poor prodigal have well said , " which by ...
... turn our self love into self abhorrence , and force us to call upon God , to save us from ourselves , to give us a new life , new light , and new spirit in Christ . O happy famine ! might the poor prodigal have well said , " which by ...
Página xix
... Turn unto God with this faith ; cast yourself into this abyss of love ; and then you will be in that state the prodigal was in , when he said , I will arise and go to my father , and will say unto him , father , I have sinned against ...
... Turn unto God with this faith ; cast yourself into this abyss of love ; and then you will be in that state the prodigal was in , when he said , I will arise and go to my father , and will say unto him , father , I have sinned against ...
Página xxi
... turns from it ; it then changes its na- ture , loses all its poison and death , and only becomes our holy cross , on which we happily die from self , and this world , into the kingdom of heaven . I much congratulate you on your manner ...
... turns from it ; it then changes its na- ture , loses all its poison and death , and only becomes our holy cross , on which we happily die from self , and this world , into the kingdom of heaven . I much congratulate you on your manner ...
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... turn of mind , equally vain in their desires . You see the same fondness for state and equipage , the same pride and vanity of dress , the same self - love and indulgence , the same foolish friendships and groundless hatreds , the same ...
... turn of mind , equally vain in their desires . You see the same fondness for state and equipage , the same pride and vanity of dress , the same self - love and indulgence , the same foolish friendships and groundless hatreds , the same ...
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Página 55 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 112 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Página 208 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Página 55 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Página 55 - ... and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...
Página 162 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Página 74 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Página xii - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called, "A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 1735,
Página 167 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Página 207 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.