The Broken Cistern, and the Springing Well: Or, The Difference Between Head Notions, and Heart Religion

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Page 75 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him.
Page 48 - The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips : he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Page 49 - Not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my Covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Page 60 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 81 - Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning : The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Page 76 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 70 - O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us : but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Page 59 - Now the Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 50 - the flefh but after the Spirit : for the law of the Spirit " of life in Chrift Jefus, hath made me free from the law
Page 49 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them ; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

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