Letters to an Anxious Inquirer: Designed to Relieve the Difficulties of a Friend Under the Serious Impressions |
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Page viii
... conviction of sin , or did not amount to genuine conversion . And we have found some whose minds have been relieved from their perplexities by a careful perusal of the " Ser- mons on Regeneration , " by the same author , because these ...
... conviction of sin , or did not amount to genuine conversion . And we have found some whose minds have been relieved from their perplexities by a careful perusal of the " Ser- mons on Regeneration , " by the same author , because these ...
Page xiii
... convictions are deepened , his personal difficulties are still not reached . There is much , very much , which remains unexplained ; and which , while it lasts , multiplies itself : or extends through new ramifications , and creates new ...
... convictions are deepened , his personal difficulties are still not reached . There is much , very much , which remains unexplained ; and which , while it lasts , multiplies itself : or extends through new ramifications , and creates new ...
Page xxiii
... conviction of the moral grandeur and awful responsibility of the Gos- pel Ministry . The noble achievements of the learned champions in defence of the Gospel abroad , disclosed to his mind more distinctly than ever , the grand field of ...
... conviction of the moral grandeur and awful responsibility of the Gos- pel Ministry . The noble achievements of the learned champions in defence of the Gospel abroad , disclosed to his mind more distinctly than ever , the grand field of ...
Page xxvii
... convictions - Advice . LETTER II . Mistaken views - Danger of reliance on feeling - The duty of avoiding unnecessary association with the World - Counting the cost - On the opposition of others — A melancholy instance — Advice - An ...
... convictions - Advice . LETTER II . Mistaken views - Danger of reliance on feeling - The duty of avoiding unnecessary association with the World - Counting the cost - On the opposition of others — A melancholy instance — Advice - An ...
Page xxviii
... conviction not neces- sary to be observed - Why conviction is more difficult to be effected in a man of strict morality - The Gospel invites without reference to the degree of conviction . LETTER V. Complaint of irresolution -- Nature ...
... conviction not neces- sary to be observed - Why conviction is more difficult to be effected in a man of strict morality - The Gospel invites without reference to the degree of conviction . LETTER V. Complaint of irresolution -- Nature ...
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Page 255 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 283 - 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 200 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 151 - And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD : for he is an holy God ; he is a jealous God ; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Page 200 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all : yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness. is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 156 - For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Page 203 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 272 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 206 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).
Page 272 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?