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To be near unto God - pagina 237
humannature,andmagnilicent revelareconciles us again is the picture gallery of history', of the heroes in common life and of the heroes of faith, as the Apostle declares: (Heb. 12) "we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," wherefore we should lay aside ever ...
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created after the purifies this love. the love for God.Image of God. But the Spirit Love for man must be hke There must be no di£ferencebetween these two, or else the love for man will detract from the love for God in the heart. Thus it becomes more and more a process of distinction ...
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seated as he is at the right hand of God, he exercises over lands and nations, generations, famihes and individuals. The course of the world's history and the final destiny of every individual In loyal sublife decides for him or against him. jection to him, the world will rejoice in peace, turned ...
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of nature. In man, who is created after his Image, he becomes more transparent. He is faliy seen in Christ, who is the express Image of his Person,Image of the Invisible God (Col. 1:15). Image and not picture. What has been sculptured conveys more reality, than what has been picured jn lin ...
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fellowship with all the saints of God; in brief, an inheritance that w^ill provide what no ear has heard, no eye has seen, and has not entered the heart of man. But all this is yet nothing else than the glory of the palace and of those who may enter therein. But the glory of salvation is found in ...
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alongside of him see God, but he shall see God in Christ. In the iinregenerate. sin has made the image of God unrecognizable. In Christ God gives his image in all its ifullness and perfect clearness. This was possible in our human nature, because the Son was the Image of the Father from all etern ...
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of God's unfathomable mercies glisten ever more gloriously. Thus there is a knowledge of God which we learn and derive from Christ. But there is a far greater knowledge of God which He himself imparts, which He brings, and makes fully clear to us in the hidden parts of the soul. The mystical part ...
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heroic sacrifice, our fathers steadily held this in They insisted on the fact that God had front. implanted the sence of himself in man (sensiis divinitatis), and that this was the seed of all religion (semen religionis). But when persecution ceased, this real spiritual background of all true kno ...
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Things are only right when the workings of the emotions and of the intellect unite in proper equipoise and in pure harmony. But sin can not tolerate this.It continuall}^breaks the equipoiseand banishes harmony, so thatfirst, there is a the feeling, and then there is a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 243
us in the written Word. Atfer his ascension also Christ lives in the Word. With it the portrait of God's Image has gone out into the world. Its presence lives among us. Thanks to the Word we are so familiar with the person and appearance of Christ, that he walks with us by the way. As he moved am ...
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