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To be near unto God - pagina 481
But the fire of this hatred only breaks out and unsparingly, when the world perceives that it is no more you who speak of God andfiercelybear witness for him, but that the living God himself speaketh in you, because he dwelleth in you, and when for this reason it can strike in you a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 482
antithesis can not be separated from the nearThe nearer we are to the world, ness to God. And the the farther away we are from God. nearer we are to God, the greater the distance between us and the world. If it were possible for us to go out from the world, after we havecome near unto God, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 483
unsanctified utterance, which is observed in you, and then falsely and slanderously saying all manner of evil against you. To be near unto God and to bear this trouble, belong together. In such a way however that it must never be courted; the world must never be incited to it by your desire after ...
To be near unto God - pagina 484
the beginning, pride is not the motive. It is rather that a beginning is made from the earnest desire to belong to the people of God, partly as an assurance of one's own salvation, but more for the sake of taking an active part in the work of sanctifying the name of the Lord, and of advancing the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 485
Ourfathers used to say, that thisoneself in the place of theWordofisputtingGod. Notfrom any saint whatever, from God's Word the standmust be derived which determines geniune childship, and the true gold of our godliness. These censors did no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 486
What whatagain invarietieseachofthesegroupsdifference again in growth, leaf, colorandin fragrance. Does not every more richly developed rose address us as a something by itself,with a charm and beautySuchall ...
To be near unto God - pagina 487
;A factory manufactures after a fixed model, everything alike; in nature in which God works, everything differs and everything exhibits a something of its own. factory.If now the spiritual life of piety is forced into a selfsame mould, the work of man counteracts the work of God; th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 488
tone-scaleoftheconscience,susceptibilitytoemotions and sensations, education, environment, business, all this together puts a peculiar stamp upon our whole spiritual being. One is after And in this manner, and another after that. connection with this the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 489
•ASOUND OF GENTLE STILLNESS.""To be near unto God"is not alike in every as with everything else that touches life intimately, it is with "one after They this manner, and with another after that." who have drifted away in the stream of methodism, have not realized this, at lea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 490
willcome and make our abode with them" (JohnAnd this excludes from God and from being near unto 14:23).the search after him, the alwaysIn this sacred domain imitation leads to nothing but selfdeceit. All mysticism of soul, which seeks and finds God, realizes that there ...
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