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Page 47
... grows worldly , and loses depth and tone , as if it were finally going to quite vanish out of the world ; that reli- gious convictions grow feeble ; that the ministry and the preached word produce no longer the true apostolic effects ...
... grows worldly , and loses depth and tone , as if it were finally going to quite vanish out of the world ; that reli- gious convictions grow feeble ; that the ministry and the preached word produce no longer the true apostolic effects ...
Page 65
... grow better , how to cultivate their amia- ble instincts , how to be rational in their own light and govern themselves by their own power . Sometimes it is given as the true problem , how to reform the shape and re - construct the style ...
... grow better , how to cultivate their amia- ble instincts , how to be rational in their own light and govern themselves by their own power . Sometimes it is given as the true problem , how to reform the shape and re - construct the style ...
Page 68
... grow small in its own sight . Perhaps it is due , in part , to the consciousness we have , in sin , of moral littleness and meanness . We commonly speak of it in figures of this kind , we call it low and weak and degraded , and fall ...
... grow small in its own sight . Perhaps it is due , in part , to the consciousness we have , in sin , of moral littleness and meanness . We commonly speak of it in figures of this kind , we call it low and weak and degraded , and fall ...
Page 72
Horace Bushnell. fruit , the fruit of the carob tree , which grows in pods and has a mealy and sweet taste . It is described by Galen as a " woody kind of food , creating bile , and hard of diges- tion ; " useful , as acorns are with us ...
Horace Bushnell. fruit , the fruit of the carob tree , which grows in pods and has a mealy and sweet taste . It is described by Galen as a " woody kind of food , creating bile , and hard of diges- tion ; " useful , as acorns are with us ...
Page 73
... grows by that which feeds it ; that , viz . , which it derives from the air and clouds , from the soil and the changing influence of day and night . In this larger sense , every organ of the body is a receptive and feeding organ ...
... grows by that which feeds it ; that , viz . , which it derives from the air and clouds , from the soil and the changing influence of day and night . In this larger sense , every organ of the body is a receptive and feeding organ ...
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Page 316 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 455 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Page 135 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 75 - Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Page 149 - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Page 225 - And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Page 62 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Page 282 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 172 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 6 - I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.