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Backslider in Heart by Finney, Charles Grandison (1792-1875)
The text says, that "the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways." 1. He shall be filled with his own works. But these are dead works, they are not works of faith and love, which are acceptable to God, but are the filthy rags of his own righteousness.
Christian Hymn Book: A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected: Revised and Expanded by Campbell, John McLeod (1800-1872)
(⇒The Figures indicate the Numbers of the Hymns.) A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z A Absence from the assembly of the saints, 1013.
Steps to Christ by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Chapter 10 A Knowledge of God Many are the ways in which God is seeking to make Himself known to us and bring us into communion with Him. Nature speaks to our senses without ceasing.
NPNF1-03. On the Holy Trinity; Doctrinal Treatises; Moral Treatises by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
the Love of Him. How the Intellectual Cognizance of Eternal Things Comes to Pass Through Wisdom. For knowledge also has its own good measure, if that in it which puffs up, or is wont to puff up, is conquered by love of eternal things, which does not puff up, but, as we know, edifieth.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
i.e. on the death of Musonius, bp. of Neocæsarea. Musonius is not named, but he is inferred to be the bishop referred to in Ep. ccx., in which Basil asserts that sound doctrine prevailed in Neocæsarea up to the time of “the blessed Musonius, whose teaching still rings in your ears.” 1.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER VIII. §§ 1, 2, 3. Sufficient assurance may be had that inspirations are from God. §§ 4, 5, 6, 7. A soul, therefore, may securely commit herself to God’s guidance; and why? § 8.
Story of Prophets and Kings by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Chapter 52 A Man of Opportunity [This chapter is based on Nehemiah 1; 2.] Nehemiah, one of the Hebrew exiles, occupied a position of influence and honor in the Persian court.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Blæsilla died within three months of her conversion, and Jerome now writes to Paula to offer her his sympathy and, if possible, to moderate her grief. He asks her to remember that Blæsilla is now in paradise, and so far to control herself as to prevent enemies of the faith from cavilling at her conduct.
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Treatise on the Soul by Tertullianus, Quintas Septimus Florens (c. 160-c. 225)
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,…
Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers by Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
CHAPTER XIII Of his great love of reading the Holy Scriptures (1) THIS reverend doctor was possessed by a great love of reading the Holy Scriptures, and by an untiring zeal in collecting the books of learned men rather than treasures of money, whereof he bears witness in a letter, saying: “I am ever covetous, yea, more than covetous, of books,…