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Holy Dying by Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)
I will seek unto God, unto God will I committ my cause, which doth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number. Job. v. 8, 9, 11, 16-19, 26. To set up on high those that be low, that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell by Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893)
THE difficulty of necessity and free will is not peculiar to Christianity. It enters into all religions at a certain stage of their progress; it reappears in philosophy and is a question not only of speculation but of life.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 50: 1904 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"There is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared." Psalm 130:4. THIS is good news, indeed—the best of news—and they will prize it most who are like the Psalmist was when he wrote these words.
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. III by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
—2 Thes. II. 17. WE come now to the apostle’s second request for them: ‘And stablish you in every good word and work.’ By ‘every good word’ is meant sound doctrine; by ‘every good work,’ holiness of life.
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. III by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
ood hope through grace.—2 Thes. II. 16. WE come now to the second branch, the ground of audience and success in prayer: ‘Which hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation,…
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
RUE CHRISTIANS. For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.—1 Thess. iv. 14. THE words which I have read are an argument of the blessed resurrection of good men to eternal life, grounded upon the resurrection of Christ.
Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VII. by Howe, John (1630-1705)
... instance, there we see a continual succession of living and dying amongst all things that have life, and come ... life before: nothing can be said to die, that did not live. But to suppose any such change ...
Inquiry into the Original, Nature, Institution, Power, Order, and Communion of Evangelical Churches by Owen, John (1616-1683)
d of the world — what are the causes of it, and whereon it depends. That there was a peculiar church-state instituted and appointed by Christ, and his apostles acting in his name and authority, with the infallible guidance of his Spirit, hath been declared; but it may be yet farther inquired, whether this church-state be still continued by divine authority,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 35: 1889 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... . It is a dead thing—the Holy Spirit is a living, blessed Person and I hope we ... order to know him. You must live with the Holy Spirit and He must dwell with you ... that Jesus lives and therefore he shall live. And the Holy Spirit is within him, as the life ...
Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations by Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893)
ROMANS VII. Titus have we the image of the lifelong struggle gathered up in a single instant. In describing it we pass beyond the consciousness of the individual into a world of abstractions; we loosen the thread by which the spiritual faculties are held together, and view as objects what can, strictly speaking, have no existence, except in relation to the subject.