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To be near unto God - pagina 296
temporary abstinence from food. It aims to put an end to the dominion of the body over the soul, and to restore the soul's dominion over the body. You know yourself that everything that feeds and pleases the body has a tendency to repress the clearness and elasticity of the life of the soul. ...
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means alone the deprivingof thebodyof foodand drink, but the withdrawal of self by generosity from the dominion of money, by sobriety and simplicity of life to liberate oneself from the power of self-indulgence, and certainly also by seclusion to escape the mastery of ...
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andthose of others, there is more than prayer and address to the living God. Can it be denied that in extemporaiy prayer before others, and even in pubHc worship, there is more argumentation and reasoning, than real appeal to the most High, who is clothed with Majesty. prayers,in ...
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exile,they prayed with their faces toward Zion.As anafter effect of this habit we still find in countries, that people do not pray at home, but in churches. Such churches are open all day, and in the solemn stillness of such stately edifices one kneels down, unobserved and un ...
To be near unto God - pagina 302
worship inspiritandin truth.But he who knowsGodas his Father who is in heaven, also knows that in prayer he has no deahngs with a forcethat extends and spreadsitself everywhere, but with his covenant God, his Lord and King, and that he can n ...
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56"TOWHOMSOEVER THE SONWILL REVEAL HIM" When weRomans 1 :20 that '"The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the thingsthat are made," and in Matthew 11:27 that "no read inone knoweth the Father, save the So ...
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God's child always prays in Jesus' name. He must do this, because irreconciled and unredeemed, he would find no listening ear with God, But even prayer in Jesus' name becomes a word withoutmeaning, when one does not first place himself before the face of the Holy One, and feels that of him ...
To be near unto God - pagina 305
pulse from which it proceeds, is never anything else, then the mistaken interpretation of the speech of God in nature and in the conscience. This is the seed of religion of which Calvin bore witness, the increated knowledge of God and the given knowledge of God, which was ever confessed by our fa ...
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is broken, so he who prays stands at the gate of heaven, and calls upon God for a hearing, and seeks connection of fellowship, but gets no sign of life in return. This but shows, that real prayer can not begin until a hearing is obtained, and connection has been established, and we know that God ...
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trembles. The knowledge of the Father maketh rich, gives peace and eternal rest. The knowledge which Satan has of God makes him tremble. This is the difference between Satan and a great sinner on earth. While the criminal can take a sleeping draught to quiet his conscience and to forget God, Sata ...
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