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... GOSPEL , and gives to this simplest of ordinances an energy for which the wisdom of the world cannot account . So much the more desirable is it to rescue from oblivion words which have been carried to the hearts and consciences of many ...
... GOSPEL , and gives to this simplest of ordinances an energy for which the wisdom of the world cannot account . So much the more desirable is it to rescue from oblivion words which have been carried to the hearts and consciences of many ...
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Jabez Bunting William Lockwood Thornton. ence to the command of the Gospel , we are to lay hold by faith on the sacrifice of Christ , pleading its all - availing merit , and confidently expecting pardon and salvation for its sake . Let ...
Jabez Bunting William Lockwood Thornton. ence to the command of the Gospel , we are to lay hold by faith on the sacrifice of Christ , pleading its all - availing merit , and confidently expecting pardon and salvation for its sake . Let ...
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... Gospel is not offered to men as matter of opinion and speculation , a subject for ingenious discussion and clever debate . All is already settled , adjudged , and decided by a supreme authority ; and our only business with revelation ...
... Gospel is not offered to men as matter of opinion and speculation , a subject for ingenious discussion and clever debate . All is already settled , adjudged , and decided by a supreme authority ; and our only business with revelation ...
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... Gospel , and halt between two opinions . In questions of human strife and speculation such vacillation may be allowed . But here there is no reasonable doubt , and no plausible pretext for dis- obedience or delay . It is an adjudged ...
... Gospel , and halt between two opinions . In questions of human strife and speculation such vacillation may be allowed . But here there is no reasonable doubt , and no plausible pretext for dis- obedience or delay . It is an adjudged ...
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... Gospel . - Christianity is not only a system of law , but of soul - subduing grace . " The law of the Lord is perfect , converting the soul . " It brings with it an energy adequate to give effectual operation to the truth which it ...
... Gospel . - Christianity is not only a system of law , but of soul - subduing grace . " The law of the Lord is perfect , converting the soul . " It brings with it an energy adequate to give effectual operation to the truth which it ...
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Page xvii - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Page 122 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 248 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Page 247 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 221 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 456 - Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 472 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 154 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 284 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 209 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.