Christian Conduct: A Further Study in New Testament Morality

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T. & T. Clark, 1897 - 145 páginas
 

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Página 63 - Lord, it belongs not to my Care ' "5 ' "Jl ), it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live ; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this Thy grace must give.
Página 42 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Página 42 - All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we ; there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small " ? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A
Página 143 - The very God ! think, Abib ; dost thou think ? So, the All-Great were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, " 0 heart I made, a heart beats here ! " Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! " Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine : " But love I gave thee, with myself to love, " And thou must love me who have died for thee ! " The madman saith He said so : it is strange.
Página 112 - Well, then, I perceive that my subjects shall obey you, and not me; and shall do what they list, and not what I command: and so must I be subject to them, and not they to me.
Página 135 - Mother, how useful, nay, how necessary the knowledge of her is, since there is no other means of entering into life unless she conceive us in the womb and give us birth, unless she nourish us at her breasts, and, in short, keep us under her charge and government, until, divested of mortal flesh, we become like the angels, (Matth.
Página 135 - For communicating instruction, and for preserving public order ; for conducting religious worship, and for dispensing social charities, it became necessary to appoint special officers. But the priestly functions and privileges of the Christian people are never regarded as transferred, or even delegated to these officers. They are called stewards or messengers of God, servants or ministers of the Church, and the like ; but the sacerdotal title is never once conferred upon them. The only priests under...
Página 39 - The rich and potent may not be permitted to suffer their children to spend their youth in a vain idleness, as heretofore they have done; but they must be exhorted, and, by the censure of the kirk, compelled to dedicate their sons by good exercises to the profit of the kirk, and commonwealth; and this they must do, because they are able.
Página 87 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Página 39 - Universities, shall be replenished with those that be apt to learning ; for this must be carefully provided, that no father, of what estate or condition that ever he be, use his children at his own fantasy, especially in their youth-head ; but all must be compelled to bring up their children in learning and virtue.

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