Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Volume 1Collins, 1837 |
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... never , either in practice or in prayer , makes an honest struggle for his own emancipation ; that he who makes not a single effort against the conformities or the as- sociations of worldliness ; and , far more , he who still persists ...
... never , either in practice or in prayer , makes an honest struggle for his own emancipation ; that he who makes not a single effort against the conformities or the as- sociations of worldliness ; and , far more , he who still persists ...
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... never can be at peace with God till he lean on a better righ- teousness than his own - yet such is the influence of the doctrines of grace on every genuine inquirer , that , from the first dawning of his obscure percep- tion of them ...
... never can be at peace with God till he lean on a better righ- teousness than his own - yet such is the influence of the doctrines of grace on every genuine inquirer , that , from the first dawning of his obscure percep- tion of them ...
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... never make out the reality of faith — and , where there is no faith , all the drudgeries of a most literal and laborious adherence to the outward matter of the law will never make out the reality of repent- ance . Life is too short for ...
... never make out the reality of faith — and , where there is no faith , all the drudgeries of a most literal and laborious adherence to the outward matter of the law will never make out the reality of repent- ance . Life is too short for ...
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... never felt before ; and he is touched with the discernment of a precious adaptation in this one and that other verse to his own wants and his own circumstances ; and this more minute and microscopic acquaintance with the truths , and ...
... never felt before ; and he is touched with the discernment of a precious adaptation in this one and that other verse to his own wants and his own circumstances ; and this more minute and microscopic acquaintance with the truths , and ...
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... never to be removed ; one of the two golden candlesticks lighted up for the church of Christ upon earth , and which while that church has being , will never be taken away . It may illustrate this whole matter , if we look to the book of ...
... never to be removed ; one of the two golden candlesticks lighted up for the church of Christ upon earth , and which while that church has being , will never be taken away . It may illustrate this whole matter , if we look to the book of ...
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Page 257 - So shall thy seed be,) and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb ; he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief ; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Page 198 - Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 250 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all...
Page 69 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 97 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 275 - Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Page 210 - Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 267 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 302 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 128 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.