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... humble garb of Bunyan , upon a serious subject , than to be able to rival the sprightliness and elegance of Lady M. W. Montague , unless it could be with a view to edification . The subjects you propose are im- 16 Let . 3 . Letters to ...
... humble garb of Bunyan , upon a serious subject , than to be able to rival the sprightliness and elegance of Lady M. W. Montague , unless it could be with a view to edification . The subjects you propose are im- 16 Let . 3 . Letters to ...
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... humble , patient , and submissive under all his dispensations ; meek , gen- tle , forbearing , and kind to my fellow - worms . Then I should be active and diligent in improving all my talents and powers in his service , and for his ...
... humble , patient , and submissive under all his dispensations ; meek , gen- tle , forbearing , and kind to my fellow - worms . Then I should be active and diligent in improving all my talents and powers in his service , and for his ...
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... humble , and more spiritual . There is , however , a part assigned us : we are to pray for the help in need ; and we are not wilfully to give way to the impression of overwhelming sorrow . We are to endeavour to turn our thoughts to ...
... humble , and more spiritual . There is , however , a part assigned us : we are to pray for the help in need ; and we are not wilfully to give way to the impression of overwhelming sorrow . We are to endeavour to turn our thoughts to ...
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... humble me than puff me up . Your favourable acceptance of them , if alone , might have the latter effect ; but alas ! I feel myself so very defective in those things , the importance of which I endeavoured to point out to others , that ...
... humble me than puff me up . Your favourable acceptance of them , if alone , might have the latter effect ; but alas ! I feel myself so very defective in those things , the importance of which I endeavoured to point out to others , that ...
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... humble , quick- en , and edify me . O ! what will heaven be , where ⚫there shall be all who love the Lord Jesus , and they only ; where all imperfection , and whatever now abates or interrupts their joy in their Lord and in each other ...
... humble , quick- en , and edify me . O ! what will heaven be , where ⚫there shall be all who love the Lord Jesus , and they only ; where all imperfection , and whatever now abates or interrupts their joy in their Lord and in each other ...
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Page 342 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 493 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 527 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 561 - I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.
Page 375 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 545 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 545 - God : being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 582 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 341 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.