Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection: With Other Kindred Subjects, Illustrated and Confirmed in a Series of Discourses Designed to Throw Light on the Way of Holiness |
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... given unto us exceeding great and precious promises ; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature , having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust . " 2 Cor . vii . 1 , " Having therefore these promises ...
... given unto us exceeding great and precious promises ; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature , having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust . " 2 Cor . vii . 1 , " Having therefore these promises ...
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... given . Who will deny that they are adequate to this object ? Unless they are thus inadequate , perfection in ho- liness , is , in this life , practicable to the Christian . Under this head I might cite many other pas- sages , equally ...
... given . Who will deny that they are adequate to this object ? Unless they are thus inadequate , perfection in ho- liness , is , in this life , practicable to the Christian . Under this head I might cite many other pas- sages , equally ...
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... given us the promise not only of perfect but per- petual holiness , he has made as near an approach to it as is in the power of language to make , and that if he had designed to express that promise , no stronger language could possibly ...
... given us the promise not only of perfect but per- petual holiness , he has made as near an approach to it as is in the power of language to make , and that if he had designed to express that promise , no stronger language could possibly ...
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... given . This covenant , it is said , is applicable to the Jews only . To this position I reply , 1st . That to the converted Jew , at least , en- tire sanctification is undeniably attainable . Why deny it to other Christians ? 2d ...
... given . This covenant , it is said , is applicable to the Jews only . To this position I reply , 1st . That to the converted Jew , at least , en- tire sanctification is undeniably attainable . Why deny it to other Christians ? 2d ...
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... given . A general sends to a subordi- nate officer , a despatch containing several distinct and specific requisitions . The officer selects one of these requisitions , given in the same manner and circumstances as all the rest , and ...
... given . A general sends to a subordi- nate officer , a despatch containing several distinct and specific requisitions . The officer selects one of these requisitions , given in the same manner and circumstances as all the rest , and ...
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Page 30 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Page 205 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 102 - And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 101 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 31 - I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 128 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest: and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words...
Page 210 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so. Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 34 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 26 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 129 - ... ye are come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect...