Christian retirement: or, Spiritual exercises of the heart, by a layman [T.S.B. Reade]. |
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... labours , as a small token of his affection and esteem . That you may long be spared to bless the Church and the World by your exertions ; and become increasingly useful to the souls of your fellow - creatures , till , like a shock of ...
... labours , as a small token of his affection and esteem . That you may long be spared to bless the Church and the World by your exertions ; and become increasingly useful to the souls of your fellow - creatures , till , like a shock of ...
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... labours for the benefit of others , will find peculiar need for frequent retirement . In their closets , they must draw down from the Fountain of love ... labour B perseveringly , as well as suffer patiently for Christ's sake On Retirement.
... labours for the benefit of others , will find peculiar need for frequent retirement . In their closets , they must draw down from the Fountain of love ... labour B perseveringly , as well as suffer patiently for Christ's sake On Retirement.
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... labours of love . But it never was the design of Infinite Wisdom , that one duty should extirpate another . As every thing is beautiful in its season , so there is a time for every thing . The art of doing much consists in giving to ...
... labours of love . But it never was the design of Infinite Wisdom , that one duty should extirpate another . As every thing is beautiful in its season , so there is a time for every thing . The art of doing much consists in giving to ...
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... labour recruits the wasted powers of our animal frame . Some good men are so wedded to their studies , that they can ... labours for the spiritual and temporal good of the thousands who followed him . And there we also read , how , " he ...
... labour recruits the wasted powers of our animal frame . Some good men are so wedded to their studies , that they can ... labours for the spiritual and temporal good of the thousands who followed him . And there we also read , how , " he ...
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... labour , in idle indulgences , or active wickedness ? The nominal professors of Christianity ; men who would be highly offended if you ranked them amongst the degraded idolaters of the heathen world - men , who pride themselves upon ...
... labour , in idle indulgences , or active wickedness ? The nominal professors of Christianity ; men who would be highly offended if you ranked them amongst the degraded idolaters of the heathen world - men , who pride themselves upon ...
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Page 175 - Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 11 - And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 175 - And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Page 353 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things R r 321 which are not, to bring to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 75 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 217 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Page 370 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Page 429 - Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee ? Follow thou me.
Page 53 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Page 212 - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips.