Extracts from the Religious Works of Monsr François Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray: Tr. from the Original FrenchJ. Hatchard, 1809 - 291 pages |
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... repentance ; and from repentance our blessed Saviour will never turn away . His place is at the right - hand of God , where he ever liveth to make intercession for us . 9. God created the first man pure , and free from sin ; free to ...
... repentance ; and from repentance our blessed Saviour will never turn away . His place is at the right - hand of God , where he ever liveth to make intercession for us . 9. God created the first man pure , and free from sin ; free to ...
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... repentance will avail us nothing . This is not christian humi- lity , but a reprobate and wicked state of mind . God is ever more ready to hear than we to pray ; and we know that our Saviour came into the world to call , " not the ...
... repentance will avail us nothing . This is not christian humi- lity , but a reprobate and wicked state of mind . God is ever more ready to hear than we to pray ; and we know that our Saviour came into the world to call , " not the ...
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... repentance and salva- tion ! -If I warn them to turn to Thee , O Lord , and to seek Thee in their own hearts , they know not what I say ; for , to vain and profligate men , their own hearts are a mystery ; a sad mystery of guilt 57.
... repentance and salva- tion ! -If I warn them to turn to Thee , O Lord , and to seek Thee in their own hearts , they know not what I say ; for , to vain and profligate men , their own hearts are a mystery ; a sad mystery of guilt 57.
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... awaken our hardened souls to repentance and salvation : Therefore , when we mourn with inward sorrow , or smart under pain , let us bend our souls , and offer up our sufferings , before the mercy - seat of God ; let us , 98.
... awaken our hardened souls to repentance and salvation : Therefore , when we mourn with inward sorrow , or smart under pain , let us bend our souls , and offer up our sufferings , before the mercy - seat of God ; let us , 98.
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... willing to mistake this uneasy sense of mortification , for repentance ; and as it is only to true penitence that God will grant pardon , we neither feel any improvement in ourselves , nor that peace which proceeds M 2 163.
... willing to mistake this uneasy sense of mortification , for repentance ; and as it is only to true penitence that God will grant pardon , we neither feel any improvement in ourselves , nor that peace which proceeds M 2 163.
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Page 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Page 121 - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 275 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Page 136 - For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
Page 53 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 265 - ... so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
Page 217 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 60 - Then it will appear, what was meant by the man that comes without the wedding garment; for that is the day spoken of, Matt. xxii. 13. wherein such an one shall be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.