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To My Younger Brethren by Moule, Handley Carr Glyn (1841-1920)
(i.). Pastor, for the round of toil See the toiling soul is fed; Shut the chamber, light the oil, Break and eat the Spirit's bread; Life to others would'st thou bring? Live thyself upon thy King.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER V. § 1. A change from meditation to prayer of the will is necessary in an internal life. § 2. It is otherwise in active livers. § 3. A soul of a contemplative profession, when to leave operating with the understanding.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER III. § 1. The contemplative state more perfect. § 2. And also more easy and secure. § 3. Of which yet the most simple and ignorant are capable. §§ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Ideal Life by Drummond, Henry (1851-1897)
“If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God.”—JOHN vii. 17. THERE is an experience which becomes more and more familiar to every one who is trying to follow Christ—a feeling of the growing loneliness of his Christian life.
Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel by Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
— Eccles. viii. 16, 17. When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth; then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea, further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots by Ryle, John Charles (1816-1900)
“Sanctify them through Thy truth.”—John xvii. 17. “This is the will of God, even your sanctification.”—1 Thess. iv. 3. The subject of sanctification is one which many, I fear, dislike exceedingly.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Volume I by Dods, Marcus (1834-1909)
XVIII. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. “Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
G E N E S I S CHAP. XVIII. We have an account in this chapter of another interview between God and Abraham, probably within a few days after the former, as the reward of his cheerful obedience to the law of circumcision.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
I turn now to the department of our intellectual faculties, such as Plato has handed it over to the heretics, distinct from our bodily functions,…
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, St. ("The Venerable," c. 673-735)
ended their days at Rome, in the monastic habit; and of the life and death of Bishop Wilfrid. [709 A. D.] IN the fourth year of the reign of Osred, Coenred, who had for some time nobly governed the kingdom of the Mercians, much more nobly quitted the sceptre of his kingdom.