Sermons on Christian Communion: Designed to Promote the Growth of the Religious Affections by Living MinistersThomas Russell Sullivan |
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... character , and can yield only unsatisfying fruit . Built upon the idea of a gen- erally correct moral life , a fair compliance with virtu- ous precepts , and a bodily attendance upon ordinances of worship , it may minister to self ...
... character , and can yield only unsatisfying fruit . Built upon the idea of a gen- erally correct moral life , a fair compliance with virtu- ous precepts , and a bodily attendance upon ordinances of worship , it may minister to self ...
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... character , and venerate him the more who has attained to virtues through penitence , trial , and self - discipline , rather than inherited them through an amiable constitution . Nor let us fail to see another deeply important truth ...
... character , and venerate him the more who has attained to virtues through penitence , trial , and self - discipline , rather than inherited them through an amiable constitution . Nor let us fail to see another deeply important truth ...
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... character depends final des- tiny , and we cannot but anxiously inquire , " What shall I do to be saved ? " He who has never felt some solicitude upon this subject , whose memory , amidst all his consciousness of frailty and all the ...
... character depends final des- tiny , and we cannot but anxiously inquire , " What shall I do to be saved ? " He who has never felt some solicitude upon this subject , whose memory , amidst all his consciousness of frailty and all the ...
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... character , the same service and obedience , which were required of them are required of us . If they , his first followers , could be his friends and ob- tain everlasting life only by believing in Him and keeping his sayings , so ...
... character , the same service and obedience , which were required of them are required of us . If they , his first followers , could be his friends and ob- tain everlasting life only by believing in Him and keeping his sayings , so ...
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... character or its extension depends upon human agencies , is a proof of the capacity of the human soul . Its propagation , the application of its princi- ples , the realization of its aims , the multiplication of its disciples , its ...
... character or its extension depends upon human agencies , is a proof of the capacity of the human soul . Its propagation , the application of its princi- ples , the realization of its aims , the multiplication of its disciples , its ...
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Page 336 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread : and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat : this is my body, which is broken for you : this do in remembrance of me.
Page 179 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 236 - God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints...
Page 150 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 212 - When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Page 269 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 284 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done/ 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
Page 359 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 125 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me: that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 181 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.