Letters on MissionsWestley and Davis, Stationers' Court, 1830 - 280 sider |
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... obedience . Moreover , as there may be , and most commonly is , a mixture of motives to be discovered , when we enter upon the difficult search of the secret springs of our conduct , it is a matter of the first import- ance , to ...
... obedience . Moreover , as there may be , and most commonly is , a mixture of motives to be discovered , when we enter upon the difficult search of the secret springs of our conduct , it is a matter of the first import- ance , to ...
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... obedience to God . You must acknowledge his authority by yielding obe- dience to his command , otherwise you are self- condemned as a transgressor . I speak not of the means of ascertaining your call ; but supposing that point to be ...
... obedience to God . You must acknowledge his authority by yielding obe- dience to his command , otherwise you are self- condemned as a transgressor . I speak not of the means of ascertaining your call ; but supposing that point to be ...
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... obedience . When I consider the difficulty attending all investigations into the operations of our own minds , and the proneness of all to judge favour- ably in their own case , it occurs to me that there may be persons who take credit ...
... obedience . When I consider the difficulty attending all investigations into the operations of our own minds , and the proneness of all to judge favour- ably in their own case , it occurs to me that there may be persons who take credit ...
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... this willing spirit which is so emphatically pronounced to be an essential requisite to acceptable obedience ; if the higher and purer motives fail to operate with commanding energy , and the individual nevertheless profess himself to be ...
... this willing spirit which is so emphatically pronounced to be an essential requisite to acceptable obedience ; if the higher and purer motives fail to operate with commanding energy , and the individual nevertheless profess himself to be ...
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... obedience ; and if love be wanting , the obedience is a dead work . Surely then it becomes all who aspire to the missionary charac- ter , to bring the hidden springs of their actions to the severest test - to subject the secret and ...
... obedience ; and if love be wanting , the obedience is a dead work . Surely then it becomes all who aspire to the missionary charac- ter , to bring the hidden springs of their actions to the severest test - to subject the secret and ...
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Side 48 - majesty of meekness".—" giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry might not be blamed, but in all things approving themselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;-by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by
Side xxxvi - employed. Its success in any country, hitherto, will not justify the christian church in saying, " By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am prudent." Here, as in other departments of
Side 174 - Acts xiii. 46.—("It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing you
Side 31 - hence, metaphorically to desire earnestly, to express eagerness to obtain. It is the same word used 1 Tim. vi. 10. " The love of money is the root of all evil, which, while some coveted after," &c. Like the miser's passion for money, should the man of God desire—covet not the wages, but the work of the ministry. The other word
Side 135 - its glad tidings, is either the duty of christians or it is not. If it be the duty of one it is the duty of all, according to their ability. But in the case supposed the plea in effect is inability. I
Side 174 - of a man, who, faithfully as he may be preaching the gospel to a congregation of professed christians, is hiding in a corner among them the talent that might have told with effect against the fabric of heathen idolatry ? * Is there not reason to suspect that he may here find the secret cause of his
Side x - arguments derived from the Scriptures, to persuade us that it is our duty to engage in this good work ; but a condensed view of the knowledge and experience which have been acquired during the last thirty or forty years. What appear to be the best fields of
Side 146 - beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and
Side 121 - own truth and faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, that by methods known to his infinite wisdom he would enlighten the dark places of the earth with the pure light of evangelical truth, and hasten the happy time foretold when the dominion of Christ
Side 164 - is not able to bring his lamb may bring his turtle doves or two young pigeons; and he who is not able to present even these may offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flower. (Lev. v. 7, 11.) But there is a rigid requisition upon every individual up to