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To be near unto God - pagina 389
72'EVERY ONE WHICH SEETH THE SON." The one thing of all others among men is to The Scripture announces in believe on Christ. every way that God has given his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. To this is added with equal emphasi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 390
limited time and in a given measure. Sympathy, inclination, preference, affection, all blossom with silvery blossoms, but never dominate all of life, do not change the ground of existence, and have no all-deciding and ever-abiding results. Faith in the Son of God stands far above eveiything else ...
To be near unto God - pagina 391
sion had tried to provide it, but in vain, until at length God brought it. He imparted it, not in the form of a gift, but in a most holy person;who was not one taken from among us^ but one who came down from heaven and not as an angel, ;which as God's servant and our helper stands o ...
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the soul can ever create faith in Christ, produce imprint and implant it. The seed of faith is a Divine sowing. Faith in Jesus is as much a gift as Christ himself is. Faith is a work of Divine compassion, wrought by the Holy Ghost. But all faith in Christ has this peculiarity and necessity, that ...
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soul, itwhich maintains the glowto burn brightly. The entire contentof faithand makesthe memory must be to the unity of the image of the Son of God. It must all be united and brought together, in order to portray this image in sacred purity to the eye of the sou ...
To be near unto God - pagina 395
a mountainous country. The Psalmists have dwelt and wandered in the mountains. Of itself, theretheir fertile minds would borrow images in the mountains by which to express the antitheses of life. And so the easy walk, with a light step, on a smooth, straight and even road suggested of itself to t ...
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spiritually seeing the son with the eyes of the soul, the child of God knows himself to be onewith the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hear the petition in the high priestly prayer: "Holy Father, I pray thee, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 396
whenitbecomes the expressionofthat assur-which with spiritual elasticity, knows how to overcome every difficulty of life on earth, and now proclaims with Habakkuk (3:17): ''Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; and there s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 397
ority and of being a privileged character, until there comes a turn in life, and the sun goes hiding behind the clouds. Then everything collapses at once. Then there is no power of resistance. Then there is no disciplined strength. Then there is nothing to hold him up and to enable him to cope wi ...
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panies us to the grave, and the cross casts its shadow across our path to the end. For this is the glory of faith, that it discloses another, a better way to us, a way on the heights of the mountain of God's holiness, which excels the ways of our earthly life, and dissolves all our sorrow, misery ...
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