he had life in himself from God, but then he began to live in himself without dependence on God the fountain of life, and this himself being interposed between God and life, it vanished even as
18. You need God’s strength to walk you through the process of receiving the promise.“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:31 Want help decid...
under the date October 14, 1785, I preached in the evening in the old Temple Church, on Ps.74:12. In the old translation it runs, "The help that is done upon earth, God doeth it Himself." A glorious and important truth!
We try to check others' faith statements and make sure they do profess Jesus Christ as God's Son and salvation is found only in Him. It must, however, be your responsibility to personally dig into God's Word and allow the Holy Spirit to be your first and final teacher on all subjects...
Next in order come some fragments of an imperfect interlinary version of the Book of Proverbs. Similar glosses were made on the Psalter; also on the Canticles of the Church, the Lord's Prayer, and other portions of Scripture. In the latter part of the tenth century, the monk JELFRIC ...
that he, the Lord, has brought them safely to this place and that that if they will keep this covenant, they will be the Lord's holy nation, dearer than all other people. What happens on the third day Moses leaves behind the people to go up to the holy Mountain for the second time...
complacent about their own moral perfections on the one hand, or harassed with self-reproaches on the other. They were advancing toward the realization of an ideal in companionship with One who not only in himself realized the human ideal, but who taught them that all the forces of the ...
and they feel the power of the Holy Spirit attending its proclamation; yet they allow the opposition of the clergy to turn them from the light. Though reason and conscience are convinced, these deluded souls dare not think differently from the minister; and their individual judgment, their etern...
The sower soweth the word.15And these are they by the way-side, where the word is sown; but [and] when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word16that was sown in their hearts. And these7are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they hav...
The early Lingbao scriptures incorporate pluralistic gender discourses. On the one hand, the early Lingbao scriptures accept the social gender system of “differences between men and women” as the decision of all deities, and incorporate the “chastity” virtue of women advocated by Confucianism. ...