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Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Volume I by Smith, George Adam (1856-1942)
CHAPTER XVIII THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea xi. From the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions—that of the Past.
Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30. They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Divine Institutes by Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c.240-c.320)
. I have spoken of humiliation, and frailty, and suffering—why God thought fit to undergo them. Now an account must be taken of the cross itself, and its meaning must be related.
New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples by Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)
‘As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.’ -- Rom. 8:14,16 It is the very same Spirit that leads us as children who also assures us that we are children.
New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples by Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)
VI. GOD’S GIFT OF HIS SON ‘For God so loved the world, that He have His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish,…
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers by Jowett, John Henry (1864-1923)
XXXIV THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM I WANT to lead the meditations of my readers to a very familiar supplication in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy will be done.” And with what better comment upon the words can I begin than this from John Calvin: “The substance of the prayer is that God would enlighten the world by the light of His Word, would form the hearts of men by the influence of His Spirit,…
Abandonment to Divine Providence by de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J. (1675-1751)
SECTION IV.—Distrust of Self. The fourth trial of souls in the state of abandonment: the obscurity of their state, and their apparent opposition to the will of God.
Creeds of Christendom, Volume III. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
CANONES SYNODI DORDRECHTANÆ. The Canons of the Synod of Dort. A.D. 1618 and 1619. [We give first the full Latin text of the Acts of the Synod of Dort (Dordrecht) on the five controverted heads of doctrine, viz., the Preface, the Articles of Faith, the Errors Rejected, the Names of Subscribers, the Conclusion, the Sentence against the Remonstrants, and the Approval of the States-General,…
Work of the Holy Spirit by Kuyper, Abraham (1837-1920)
. “Who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit.”—1 Thess. iv. 8. The need of divine guidance is never more deeply felt than when one undertakes to give instruction in the work of the Holy Spirit—so unspeakably tender is the subject, touching the inmost secrets of God and the soul’s deepest mysteries.
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers by Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
SECOND SPEECH THE NATURE OF RELIGION You know how the aged Simonides, by long and repeated hesitation, put to silence the person who troubled him with the question, What are the gods? Our question, What is religion? is similar and equally extensive, and I would fain begin with a like hesitation.