Letters on MissionsWestley and Davis, Stationers' Court, 1830 - 280 sider |
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Side 15
... 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 ...
Side 16
... 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 17
... 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 ...
Side 18
... 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 ...
Side 19
... 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 xxxvii - 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 43 - ... as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Side 208 - 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 173 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.
Side 149 - ... 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 122 - Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Side 211 - 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 249 - 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 148 - 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 172 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.