On the Foundations of Morals: Four Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, November, 1837 |
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... Christ our Lord . He it is who can bring us to life and liberty ; - who can raise our affections to the standard of the holy law of God ; —who can put our moral being at one with itself : who can resolve the long and weary contest ...
... Christ our Lord . He it is who can bring us to life and liberty ; - who can raise our affections to the standard of the holy law of God ; —who can put our moral being at one with itself : who can resolve the long and weary contest ...
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... of them that believe . We learn that in Jesus Christ there is deliverance , because there is re- demption and propitiation ; —that * " what the law Rom . iii . 24 could not do , in that it was weak through SERMON THIRD . 81.
... of them that believe . We learn that in Jesus Christ there is deliverance , because there is re- demption and propitiation ; —that * " what the law Rom . iii . 24 could not do , in that it was weak through SERMON THIRD . 81.
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... Christ , reconciling the world to himself , " this , and this alone gives us such a view of our condition , as can at once satisfy the judgment of our reason and the aspirations of our hopes . This alone answers alike to the awful voice ...
... Christ , reconciling the world to himself , " this , and this alone gives us such a view of our condition , as can at once satisfy the judgment of our reason and the aspirations of our hopes . This alone answers alike to the awful voice ...
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... Christ ? Is there not rather the most entire accordance and harmony ? The view of our condition given us by the revelation of God , confirms and en- forces the representations of our natural reason ; while it adds truths of vast moment ...
... Christ ? Is there not rather the most entire accordance and harmony ? The view of our condition given us by the revelation of God , confirms and en- forces the representations of our natural reason ; while it adds truths of vast moment ...
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... Christ ; if so be that we suffer with him , that we may be glorified with him . * " O that we might use this power ! —that we might so foster in us the working of conscience and the knowledge of a judgment to come , as both to hate and ...
... Christ ; if so be that we suffer with him , that we may be glorified with him . * " O that we might use this power ! —that we might so foster in us the working of conscience and the knowledge of a judgment to come , as both to hate and ...
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Page 62 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 49 - For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 61 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 102 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 67 - Speak of the worm that never dies, And the fire that is not quenched.
Page 85 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 24 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 184 - ... the wisdom of God, and the power of God unto salvation.
Page 161 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 38 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.