The backslider; or, An enquiry into the nature, symptoms, and effects of religious declension, with the means of recoveryJ. W. Morris. Sold by Button & Son, Gardiner, Ogle and Williams, London; and Ogle, Edinburgh., 1801 - Christian life - 98 pages |
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... walk no more with him ; or partially , fo as greatly to difho- nour his name . Alas , how many charac- ters of this defcription are to be found in our congregations ! If we only review the progrefs of things for twenty or thirty years ...
... walk no more with him ; or partially , fo as greatly to difho- nour his name . Alas , how many charac- ters of this defcription are to be found in our congregations ! If we only review the progrefs of things for twenty or thirty years ...
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... walking humbly with God ; and every one may perceive that they are followed with fimilar effects . has been ... walk- ing with God , will go with it . The con- feffion of Peter , that Jefus was the Chrift , the Son of God , is ...
... walking humbly with God ; and every one may perceive that they are followed with fimilar effects . has been ... walk- ing with God , will go with it . The con- feffion of Peter , that Jefus was the Chrift , the Son of God , is ...
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... walking by the way , in- ftead of being employed in talking and meditating on divine fubjects , are engroffed by things which do not profit . Such are the rocks amongst which many have made fhipwreck of faith and a good confcience ...
... walking by the way , in- ftead of being employed in talking and meditating on divine fubjects , are engroffed by things which do not profit . Such are the rocks amongst which many have made fhipwreck of faith and a good confcience ...
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... walk in the light as he is in the light , we have fellowship one with another . But if we are deprived of fellowship with God and his people , from what can we derive confolation ? If we have only had a F 2 Of Backfliding . 55.
... walk in the light as he is in the light , we have fellowship one with another . But if we are deprived of fellowship with God and his people , from what can we derive confolation ? If we have only had a F 2 Of Backfliding . 55.
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... walk- ing in them . Let thy prayer then be di- rected , like that of the Pfalmift , to the good fhepherd of the theep , Seek thy fer- vant ! Psalm cxix . 175 . Prayer is a kind of religious exercife which is neceffary H 2 Of Recovery . 79.
... walk- ing in them . Let thy prayer then be di- rected , like that of the Pfalmift , to the good fhepherd of the theep , Seek thy fer- vant ! Psalm cxix . 175 . Prayer is a kind of religious exercife which is neceffary H 2 Of Recovery . 79.
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Page 66 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 20 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 54 - When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
Page 8 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee : know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee,"saith the LORD God of hosts.
Page 74 - When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice ; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Page 45 - When he slew them then they sought him : and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the most high God their redeemer.
Page 75 - ... as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts.
Page 90 - ... man, was not wrought for little or few offences. Thou didst not give thy Son, O heavenly Father, unto death for small sins only, but for all the greatest sins of the world, so that the sinner return to thee with his whole heart, as I do here at this present.
Page 35 - And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance : in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
Page 98 - Make me a clean heart, O GOD : and renew a right fpirit within me. Caft me not away from Thy prefence : and take not Thy HOLY SPIRIT from me.