The British Churches in Relation to the British People |
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action affections amongst apostle appears appointed apprehend aristocratic sentiment ascer asso authority bear become believe benevolence body British Churches character Christian Church of Christ common constitute dispensation display divine truth duty earnest effort embodied enterprise evil exclusively exercise exertion exhibit express extent fact faith feeling give glorious God's gospel habits heart honour human impression individual influence irreligion Jesus Christ kingdom labour lence less living look Lord LUDGATE HILL man-the man's manifestation matter means ment merely mind minister ministry mission mode moral power nature nexion object observation organized pathy perhaps piety political political religionism practical present principle profession professional sentiment purpose racter recognise regard religion religious render respect revealed truth revelation sense social society soul sphere spiritual success sympathy teaching things thought tion trade spirit true TUFNELL PARK uncon utterance vidual whilst word worldly
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Page 21 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 161 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith : or ministry, let us wait on our ministering : or he that teacheth, on teaching : or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 230 - And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 23 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Page 59 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Page 29 - The seasons' difference ; as the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 69 - 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 21 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Page 20 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 135 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?