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Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God by Bayly, Lewis (1565-1631)
PIETY. Those hindrances are chiefly seven:— I. An ignorant mistaking of the true meaning of certain places of the holy Scriptures, and some other chief grounds of Christian religion.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 02: 1856 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole word, and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36. Many men have been made bankrupts through inattention to their books.
History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, J. E.
FOR the origin of the Moravian Church in England we turn our eyes to a bookseller’s shop in London. It was known as “The Bible and Sun”; it stood a few yards west of Temple Bar; and James Hutton, the man behind the counter, became in time the first English member of the Brethren’s Church.
Holy Dying by Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)
SECTION I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Mans Life. A man is a bubble, (said the Greek proverb,) Πομφολνε ο ανζρωπος. which Lucian represents with advantages and its proper circumstances, to this purpose; saying, that all the world is a storm, and men rise up in their several generations, like bubbles descending a Jove pluvio, from God and the dew of heaven,…
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
... will, justify and save a wicked Jew that lived and died impenitent, though he was of the seed of ...
History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
tianity. Literature. I. Acts 15, and Gal. 2, and the Commentaries thereon. II. Besides the general literature already noticed (in §§ 20 and 29), compare the following special discussions on the Conference of the Apostles, which tend to rectify the extreme view of Baur (Paulus, ch.
Doctrinal Theology by Schmid, Heinrich (1811-1885)
... of believing, likewise a deficiency of strength for holy living, together with the dominion and guilt of sin ...
Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance Explained and Confirmed by Owen, John (1616-1683)
... us a church all whose members are holy, called, sanctified, justified, living stones, temples for the Holy Ghost ... same Philo, as far as can be gathered, living and dying in the Jewish religion, having been employed by ...
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. V by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God.—Rev. III. 2. IN scriptures wherein the expression is anything more difficult, wits are most rank and luxuriant, every one taking a liberty to affix his own sense there, where the true and genuine sense is not so obvious and easily found out;…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Chap. I. While fasting and sitting on a certain mountain, and giving thanks to the Lord for all His dealings with me, I see the Shepherd sitting down beside me, and saying,…