 | Advice - 1828 - 72 pages
...preferments, grandeurs, pleasures, &c. at tracted my attention, and engaged my heart, andnowtoo late, I know that "if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him " and " if any man will be a friend to the world he is the enemy of God." I unhappily pursued the pleasures... | |
 | 1837 - 404 pages
...and in cherishing a devout and humble spirit. It loves the world supremely, though Christ hath said, that " if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." And even if it do not, at times, like the Scribes and Pharisees, break out into open, and bitter, and malicious... | |
 | 1839 - 498 pages
...terrors of the Lord, by realising the awful consequences of our worldliness and folly. Let us remember, that if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ; and that whoever is the friend of the world is the enemy of God. What a fearful declaration ! what searching... | |
 | John Newton - 1839 - 496 pages
...seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, his religion is vain ;" and the apostle Joim, " That if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ;" and he seems to apply this character to any man, whatever his profession or pretences may be, " who having... | |
 | 1840 - 248 pages
...religion is vain and ineffectual. 2. Take heed of too much addictedness to this world, as remembering, that if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ; and that the friendship of this world is enmity to God. 3. Dwell much within, and be much conversant in... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...ways, what is this but the being called upon to renounce the common practices of mankind ? We are told, that "if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ;" and is not this the same thing as declaring to us, that our natural likings and dislikings, in Divine things,... | |
 | William Adams - 1844 - 134 pages
...ruined wall ? &. The world. ©. Yes, in that sense in which St. John speaks of it, when he tells us that " if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." And it is possible for those who are placed in the Church to live notwithstanding as children of the world... | |
 | 1845 - 1174 pages
...the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, so that if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ; and not only so, but that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ; while these with a great multitude... | |
 | William Adams - 1849 - 426 pages
...ruined wall ? 8. The world. ©. Yes, in that sense in which St. John speaks of it, when he tells us that " if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." And it is possible for those who are placed in the Church to live notwithstanding as children of the world... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...godliness than he practices himself. A worldly community will not patronize a system which declares that, " if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." And therefore it is, that even in circles where Christianity in its general features is treated with respect,... | |
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