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... increase our love to him , we must cut off all earthly and sensual loves , for they pollute and unhallow the pure and spi- ritual love . Every degree of inordinate affection to the things of this world , and every act of love to a fin ...
... increase our love to him , we must cut off all earthly and sensual loves , for they pollute and unhallow the pure and spi- ritual love . Every degree of inordinate affection to the things of this world , and every act of love to a fin ...
Page 61
... increase with the increase of God , just as there are degrees of love to God among the faints , and each of them love him with all their powers and capacities . The greater state of this love is the zeal of love which runs out into ...
... increase with the increase of God , just as there are degrees of love to God among the faints , and each of them love him with all their powers and capacities . The greater state of this love is the zeal of love which runs out into ...
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... increase in the love and service of God . Beg of God by prayer that he would give you the spirit of obedience and profiting , and that he would by his spirit write the word in your heart ; to which purpose serve yourself of some ...
... increase in the love and service of God . Beg of God by prayer that he would give you the spirit of obedience and profiting , and that he would by his spirit write the word in your heart ; to which purpose serve yourself of some ...
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... increase or wane with them . But the good man is as chearful when the world frowns , as when it smiles upon him : However the world goes with him , it is all one to him : He is ftill the same ; though he lofes all things here below , he ...
... increase or wane with them . But the good man is as chearful when the world frowns , as when it smiles upon him : However the world goes with him , it is all one to him : He is ftill the same ; though he lofes all things here below , he ...
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... increases in activity , the other always decays ; and so accordingly as we abate in the strength of our brutish , shall we improve in the vigour of our rational faculties . But to act suitably to their natures , being the end of all our ...
... increases in activity , the other always decays ; and so accordingly as we abate in the strength of our brutish , shall we improve in the vigour of our rational faculties . But to act suitably to their natures , being the end of all our ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.