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... offenders , and making them willing to receive it . To offer heaven , and then to prevail on man to accept it , is at once an act of God's omnipotence , and of his mercy . - Thus faith , which appears to be so easy , is of all things ...
... offenders , and making them willing to receive it . To offer heaven , and then to prevail on man to accept it , is at once an act of God's omnipotence , and of his mercy . - Thus faith , which appears to be so easy , is of all things ...
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... offenders , that they themselves were nothing more than vehi- cles and organs of the operation of the Spirit . While he insinuates that , were these miraculous powers their sole distinction , it might be doubt- ful by what specific mark ...
... offenders , that they themselves were nothing more than vehi- cles and organs of the operation of the Spirit . While he insinuates that , were these miraculous powers their sole distinction , it might be doubt- ful by what specific mark ...
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... offender see , that they have no pleasure in adopting harsh measures ; of this truth they give the surest proof by the joy with which , like the Apostle , they welcome the returning penitent back to virtue . • Observe the delicacy of ...
... offender see , that they have no pleasure in adopting harsh measures ; of this truth they give the surest proof by the joy with which , like the Apostle , they welcome the returning penitent back to virtue . • Observe the delicacy of ...
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... return to virtue , when we do not leave the offender some remnant of reputation to which he may still be led to act up . May not this preservation from despair lead to the operation of a higher principal 194 SAINT PAUL'S TENDERNESS.
... return to virtue , when we do not leave the offender some remnant of reputation to which he may still be led to act up . May not this preservation from despair lead to the operation of a higher principal 194 SAINT PAUL'S TENDERNESS.
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... offender of that patient calmness with which he might otherwise have profited by the reproof , -- This intimate feeling of his own imperfection is every where visible . It makes him more than once press on his friends the Christian duty ...
... offender of that patient calmness with which he might otherwise have profited by the reproof , -- This intimate feeling of his own imperfection is every where visible . It makes him more than once press on his friends the Christian duty ...
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Page 372 - Thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me?" He then proceeds to enumerate individuals, of whom it may be presumed that he once entertained better hopes. While, therefore, we possess the works of this great Apostle, and still many continue to receive so little benefit from
Page 190 - generous energy in enumerating the several instances in which this good effect had appeared ; — " yea, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear
Page 157 - duties of a Christian minister, to which there is also a reference in this chapter, was never compressed into so small a compass as in his charge to his beloved Titus *; — "In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works. In doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech.
Page 196 - Let me rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." When he expresses such a feeling sense of distress, upon the interesting occasion
Page 381 - Christianity elevating civilisation and sanctifying commerce — had the Royal Saint witnessed this combination of mercies in one single country, what had his feelings been ? He who so passionately exclaimed, " Oh, how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts ! — my soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord — blessed are they that dwell in thine house
Page 66 - all proposed with a minuteness which will scarcely bear a comparison but with his own catalogue of virtues in a kindred Epistle: " Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report; if there be any
Page 381 - my soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord — blessed are they that dwell in thine house — one day in thy courts is better than
Page 3 - how low was its highest standard. It had completely betrayed its inability to effect a revolution in the minds of men. " Human reason," says the same great authority above quoted, " never yet, from unquestionable principles or clear deductions, made out an entire body of the law of nature.
Page 204 - I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." * As the representative of his Master he implores of man the reconciliation for which it would be natural to expect that
Page 327 - newly conceived in the Apostle's mind; he had before told the Thessalonians — " the Lord himself shall descend with a shout, with the voice of an Archangel and the trump of God." His grateful spirit does not forget to remind them to whom the victory is owing, to