Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars ...1830 - 118 pages |
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... give you rest ; and whosoever cometh unto me , I shall in no ways cast out . " But if this invitation is slighted , the message of God is , " Behold , ye despisers , and wonder and perish . " Recollect , that out of Christ , there is no ...
... give you rest ; and whosoever cometh unto me , I shall in no ways cast out . " But if this invitation is slighted , the message of God is , " Behold , ye despisers , and wonder and perish . " Recollect , that out of Christ , there is no ...
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... the place of hope ; you are still in that world where the Son of God ap- peared , and where he appeared to give his life a ransom for many , and who , in the language of over- whelming condescension , is , in his Word , saying 12.
... the place of hope ; you are still in that world where the Son of God ap- peared , and where he appeared to give his life a ransom for many , and who , in the language of over- whelming condescension , is , in his Word , saying 12.
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... give all the glory to God ; it is a proof of much undeserved mercy on the part of God , and calls for much grati- tude on yours . Persevere in the good ways of the Lord ; the struggle with your spiritual enemies may be severe , for you ...
... give all the glory to God ; it is a proof of much undeserved mercy on the part of God , and calls for much grati- tude on yours . Persevere in the good ways of the Lord ; the struggle with your spiritual enemies may be severe , for you ...
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... give me an unspeakable plea- sure , if , through the power of the Holy Spirit acting on your souls , it should awaken in any of you a desire to seek to that Saviour whom Newton sought to and found , and — after the influences of that ...
... give me an unspeakable plea- sure , if , through the power of the Holy Spirit acting on your souls , it should awaken in any of you a desire to seek to that Saviour whom Newton sought to and found , and — after the influences of that ...
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... give it a higher title ) for more than two years , without any considerable breaking off . But it was a poor reli- gion ; it left me in many respects under the power of sin , and so far as it prevailed , only tended to make me gloomy ...
... give it a higher title ) for more than two years , without any considerable breaking off . But it was a poor reli- gion ; it left me in many respects under the power of sin , and so far as it prevailed , only tended to make me gloomy ...
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Page 47 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Page 7 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 13 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 28 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness ; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.
Page 9 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 1 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 7 - God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference : for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...
Page 21 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 104 - Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia ; and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea, which were in Christ ; but they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed ; and they glorified God in me.
Page 88 - I never knew sweeter or more frequent hours of divine communion than in my two last voyages to Guinea, when I was either almost secluded from society on ship-board, or when on shore among the natives.