Select Pieces, from the Practical and Devotional Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop HallGeorge Virtue, 1838 - 527 pages |
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... NATURE OF UNION WITH CHRIST Chap . III . THE RESEMBLANCEs of this UNION Sec . 1. Like the union of the head with the body between the husband and wife the body and its nourishment 4. Compared to the branch and the root the foundation ...
... NATURE OF UNION WITH CHRIST Chap . III . THE RESEMBLANCEs of this UNION Sec . 1. Like the union of the head with the body between the husband and wife the body and its nourishment 4. Compared to the branch and the root the foundation ...
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... Nature and grace 475 401 Old age 385 307 Our best friend 392 387 Our relation to the earth 416 422 Owl in the twilight 336 368 Pair of spectacles 362 375 Passing bell 345 371 Path of the just 381 409 Peacock 348 316 Peal of bells 346 ...
... Nature and grace 475 401 Old age 385 307 Our best friend 392 387 Our relation to the earth 416 422 Owl in the twilight 336 368 Pair of spectacles 362 375 Passing bell 345 371 Path of the just 381 409 Peacock 348 316 Peal of bells 346 ...
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... nature takes it , is the most dangerous indisposition of the soul : if that may be healed by some few bodily pangs , the ad- vantage is unspeakable . Observe some vigorous gallant , who in the height of his spirit and the heat of his ...
... nature takes it , is the most dangerous indisposition of the soul : if that may be healed by some few bodily pangs , the ad- vantage is unspeakable . Observe some vigorous gallant , who in the height of his spirit and the heat of his ...
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... nature , difficult ; but we are feeble and false - hearted . ' 6 " Shall these pagans attain to this height of ... natural cou- rage , heightened with a vainglorious ambition of the fame which they believed would survive them . Whereas ...
... nature , difficult ; but we are feeble and false - hearted . ' 6 " Shall these pagans attain to this height of ... natural cou- rage , heightened with a vainglorious ambition of the fame which they believed would survive them . Whereas ...
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... nature and grace : that nature is still unifom , and like itself ; grace varies , according to the pleasure of the giver . The Spirit breathes when and where it listeth . John iii . 8. When therefore the gracious inspirations of the ...
... nature and grace : that nature is still unifom , and like itself ; grace varies , according to the pleasure of the giver . The Spirit breathes when and where it listeth . John iii . 8. When therefore the gracious inspirations of the ...
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Page 40 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 471 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 203 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 143 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 246 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 192 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 189 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 460 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 205 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 205 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus ; that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.