Piety Without Asceticism, Or the Protestant Kempis: A Manual of Christian Faith and Practice, Selected from the Writings of Scougal, Charles How, and CudworthJames Duncan, 1837 - 488 pagini |
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Pagina iv
... perfection of the internal and spiritual life , must , with JESUS , withdraw from the multitude . No man can safely go abroad , that does not willingly stay at home ; no man can safely speak , that does not willingly hold his tongue ...
... perfection of the internal and spiritual life , must , with JESUS , withdraw from the multitude . No man can safely go abroad , that does not willingly stay at home ; no man can safely speak , that does not willingly hold his tongue ...
Pagina 28
... perfection and happiness depend . The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love : he who loves mean and sordid things , thereby becomes base and vile ; but a noble and well - placed affec- tion ...
... perfection and happiness depend . The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love : he who loves mean and sordid things , thereby becomes base and vile ; but a noble and well - placed affec- tion ...
Pagina 30
... perfection of his nature . ' But , though this may seem too strained an expression , certainly love is the worthiest present we can offer unto God ; and it is extremely debased , when we bestow it in any other way . When this affection ...
... perfection of his nature . ' But , though this may seem too strained an expression , certainly love is the worthiest present we can offer unto God ; and it is extremely debased , when we bestow it in any other way . When this affection ...
Pagina 32
... perfection and goodness , as not only answers and satisfies its affection , but masters and overpowers it too : it finds all its love to be too faint and languid for such a noble object , and is only sorry that it can command no more ...
... perfection and goodness , as not only answers and satisfies its affection , but masters and overpowers it too : it finds all its love to be too faint and languid for such a noble object , and is only sorry that it can command no more ...
Pagina 74
... perfection , and yet , that little may suffice to fill our souls with admiration and love ; to ravish our affections , as well as to raise our wonder . For we are not merely creatures of sense , that we should be incapable of any other ...
... perfection , and yet , that little may suffice to fill our souls with admiration and love ; to ravish our affections , as well as to raise our wonder . For we are not merely creatures of sense , that we should be incapable of any other ...
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Pagina 422 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pagina 150 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Pagina 193 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Pagina 194 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Pagina 422 - Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Pagina 102 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that It is for his life.
Pagina 191 - ... thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all : the earth is full of thy riches.
Pagina 207 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Pagina 196 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Pagina 187 - My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed : I will sing and give praise.