Letters on MissionsPerkins and Marvin, 1831 - 288 sider |
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Side 72
... 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 impor- tance , 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 impor- tance , to ...
Side 73
... 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 ...
Side 74
... obedience may not flow from regard to the command , but because the performance of the duty is , on other grounds , pleasant or profitable . Now , since partiality in judging of ourselves always inclines us to put the best construction ...
... obedience may not flow from regard to the command , but because the performance of the duty is , on other grounds , pleasant or profitable . Now , since partiality in judging of ourselves always inclines us to put the best construction ...
Side 75
... obedience ; if the higher and purer motives fail to operate with commanding energy , and the individual nevertheless ... obedience ; and if love be wanting , the obedience is a dead work . Surely then it becomes all who aspire to the ...
... obedience ; if the higher and purer motives fail to operate with commanding energy , and the individual nevertheless ... obedience ; and if love be wanting , the obedience is a dead work . Surely then it becomes all who aspire to the ...
Side 76
... obedience . " The love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge , that if one died for all , then were all ... obedience such as God can approve . And there- fore I think the true explanation of the subject is that which is ...
... obedience . " The love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge , that if one died for all , then were all ... obedience such as God can approve . And there- fore I think the true explanation of the subject is that which is ...
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Side 38 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Side 236 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Side 208 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.
Side 189 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 102 - 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 longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Side 239 - 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.
Side 269 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Side 235 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Side 188 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Side 188 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...