The Practice of Christian Holiness, Extracted from Hele's Select Offices of Private Devotion

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Page 6 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 51 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 'Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 66 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities : The chastisement of our peace was upon Him ; And with His stripes we are healed. "All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one to his own way ; And the Lord hath laid on Him The iniquity of us all. "He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth : He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, So He openeth not His mouth.
Page 45 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 39 - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous : and He is the Propitiation for our sins : and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Page 39 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 65 - Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
Page 39 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Page 36 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 6 - For this is the will of GOD, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication ; that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not GOD...

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