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... sight to discern it . If we were not passive and unconscious ; if our will had begun actively and con- sciously to unfold itself , and follow its own inclinations , we should become at once sinners in act , and the natural resistance of ...
... sight to discern it . If we were not passive and unconscious ; if our will had begun actively and con- sciously to unfold itself , and follow its own inclinations , we should become at once sinners in act , and the natural resistance of ...
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... sight to the dis- cernment of faith , we shall see that it is but remedial and secondary ; that it is a painful and laborious undoing of the tangled and stubborn perversity of the disobedient will ; that it is , as it was called of old ...
... sight to the dis- cernment of faith , we shall see that it is but remedial and secondary ; that it is a painful and laborious undoing of the tangled and stubborn perversity of the disobedient will ; that it is , as it was called of old ...
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... sight seems more difficult to explain than His submitting to be baptised . It was not like His circumci- sion , which was received in infancy by the care of His holy mother , and in accordance with the existing law of the Church ; nor ...
... sight seems more difficult to explain than His submitting to be baptised . It was not like His circumci- sion , which was received in infancy by the care of His holy mother , and in accordance with the existing law of the Church ; nor ...
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... sight and forgotten . All that they say and do has about it something subtil and subdued , hardly preceptible , yet never unper- ceived , by which self again comes into view . Even in the most sacred things , and in the holiest actions ...
... sight and forgotten . All that they say and do has about it something subtil and subdued , hardly preceptible , yet never unper- ceived , by which self again comes into view . Even in the most sacred things , and in the holiest actions ...
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... sight of Heaven . All these , which are the first principles of repentance and purification , are but faintly , if at all , apprehended by any but those who use in secret a discipline of self - chastisement ; and all attempts at such ...
... sight of Heaven . All these , which are the first principles of repentance and purification , are but faintly , if at all , apprehended by any but those who use in secret a discipline of self - chastisement ; and all attempts at such ...
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Page 290 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery ; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned : but what sayest 40 thou ? This they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
Page 10 - Perfect God and perfect man; of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting.
Page 151 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like! unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 73 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 289 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment...
Page 157 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Page 248 - And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Page 157 - And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
Page 6 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 179 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.