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... heart is stirred to speak as fully and as home to this point as Christ shall help me . It is very , very sad to consider , how few humble souls there be in these days . Ah ! the damnable pride that reigns and rules in the hearts and ...
... heart is stirred to speak as fully and as home to this point as Christ shall help me . It is very , very sad to consider , how few humble souls there be in these days . Ah ! the damnable pride that reigns and rules in the hearts and ...
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... heart of man stands more averse to than this , of coming off from his own righteousness . Man is a creature apt to warm him- self with the sparks of his own fire , though he doth lie down for it in eternal sorrow . Man is naturally ...
... heart of man stands more averse to than this , of coming off from his own righteousness . Man is a creature apt to warm him- self with the sparks of his own fire , though he doth lie down for it in eternal sorrow . Man is naturally ...
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... heart is this- a humble heart will submit to every truth of God , that is made known to it ; even to those divine truths , that are most cross to flesh and blood . In 1 Sam . iii . 17 , Eli would fain know what God had discovered to ...
... heart is this- a humble heart will submit to every truth of God , that is made known to it ; even to those divine truths , that are most cross to flesh and blood . In 1 Sam . iii . 17 , Eli would fain know what God had discovered to ...
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... heart may kick and swell against God ; but his very mind was quiet and still there was a heavenly calm in his spirit ... hearts stand ready pressed to subject themselves to whatever God shall declare to be his will . We are willing to ...
... heart may kick and swell against God ; but his very mind was quiet and still there was a heavenly calm in his spirit ... hearts stand ready pressed to subject themselves to whatever God shall declare to be his will . We are willing to ...
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... hearts live not upon the Lord Jesus Christ ; they live upon themselves , and upon their own duties , their own right- eousness , their own actings , as the scripture evidences . Christ dwells in that heart most eminently , that hath ...
... hearts live not upon the Lord Jesus Christ ; they live upon themselves , and upon their own duties , their own right- eousness , their own actings , as the scripture evidences . Christ dwells in that heart most eminently , that hath ...
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Popular passages
Page 364 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 182 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 340 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 388 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 461 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands ; thy walls are continually before Me.
Page 10 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 455 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing...
Page 333 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 456 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 64 - I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.