The Reason why: A Story of Fact and FictionErnest E. Russell, 1896 - 365 pages |
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... Jesus . There ain't no such thing as real pureness or cleanness of heart until divine grace has washed away Adam's guilt . We are conceived in sin and born in iniquity . That's the condi- tion in which we come into this world . 66 And ...
... Jesus . There ain't no such thing as real pureness or cleanness of heart until divine grace has washed away Adam's guilt . We are conceived in sin and born in iniquity . That's the condi- tion in which we come into this world . 66 And ...
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... Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved . ' " That's all . No paying priests or Popes to pray you out of purgatory and into heaven . No looking up the records to see whether you was foreordained to be saved or to be damned . The promise is ...
... Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved . ' " That's all . No paying priests or Popes to pray you out of purgatory and into heaven . No looking up the records to see whether you was foreordained to be saved or to be damned . The promise is ...
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... Jesus . I thank God that my father despised the things of this world and learnt his children to do so too , and to lay up their treasure in heaven . He was a farmer in good easy circum- stances before his conversion . He died in want ...
... Jesus . I thank God that my father despised the things of this world and learnt his children to do so too , and to lay up their treasure in heaven . He was a farmer in good easy circum- stances before his conversion . He died in want ...
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... Jesus . Pray the prayer of Habakkuk , ' In wrath remember mercy . ' Go down on your knees in the dirt and beg . Flee from the wrath to come . Another year , another day , and it may be too late . Death stalks through the land ...
... Jesus . Pray the prayer of Habakkuk , ' In wrath remember mercy . ' Go down on your knees in the dirt and beg . Flee from the wrath to come . Another year , another day , and it may be too late . Death stalks through the land ...
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... Jesus , an ' I kin watch thet wicked ol ' sinner Bill Stople a - layin ' down thar in hell a - burnin ' an ' a - roastin ' an ' a - groanin ' - then , my dear brothern an ' sistern , then who'll larf ! " Higley Doom paused , rubbed his ...
... Jesus , an ' I kin watch thet wicked ol ' sinner Bill Stople a - layin ' down thar in hell a - burnin ' an ' a - roastin ' an ' a - groanin ' - then , my dear brothern an ' sistern , then who'll larf ! " Higley Doom paused , rubbed his ...
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Page 103 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 103 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 103 - There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Page 319 - Faith ; which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.
Page 103 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 104 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 149 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Page 45 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 149 - These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.
Page 326 - I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.