The Natural Truth of Christianity: Selections from the "Select Discourses" of John Smith, M.A.A. Gardner, 1882 - 278 pages |
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Page 94 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 119 - But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead...
Page 129 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Page 187 - Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page 253 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth...
Page 244 - For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
Page 170 - Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 96 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 251 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 229 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.