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To be near unto God - pagina 491
90"THOU DIDST MAKE ME TRUST WHEN I WAS UPON MY MOTHER'S BREASTS." secret walk with God is not only different for one child of God than for another, but the difference is inwardly connected with individual disposition, character, nature and temperament. Where there are two persons who live ...
To be near unto God - pagina 492
Augustine, that great spirit, it must needs be so and not otherwise, and ^or this very reason it never can and never will be so with the humble and the plain. As it was with Augustine or Calvin would not meet their case. But next to this comforting thought, it contains a strong stimulus and a spu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 493
Jeremiah and David the Scripture describes this particular character of every individual's hidden walk with the Eternal Being. Although Psalm 22 bears a strongly marked Messianic character, and although this song of the most grievous woe only attains its fullest significance in its application to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 494
not hid from thee, when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my memberswere written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet these was none of them." Psalm 139: 13-16). ...
To be near unto God - pagina 495
and thatintheir conceptionandin their birthhumanperson was called into being, as would be able to enter upon such a spiritual condition and to fulfill such a spiritual calling. In whatever way therefore we take it, the three strong declarations of David, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 496
ifthespirituallifeofthesoul,includingthewalk with God, leads to this end, the whole appointment regarding the form in which you were to be born, both after soul and body, was of necessity directly connected with what you once will be ...
To be near unto God - pagina 497
the life of his soul from the moment when as infant he cradled at his mother's breast. 91"AND WORSHIP HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER." Prayer and worship are not the same. This is at once when we consider the distinction between religion in heaven and religion on earth. Here on earth we ...
To be near unto God - pagina 498
heaven prayer is made The behalf of God's people in the earth. Scripture teaches this clearly with respect to in their That the angels remember us Christ. supplication is quite certain. And that the blessed themselves unite with Christ and the angels in prayer for the triumph of the Kingdom of Go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 499
something from God. He who worships that his soul and his whole being may devote itself to God. He who prays intends that something shall come to us from God. He who worships intends that something from us shall come to God. desires desiresThat grace operatesin worship,is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 500
itself in God, when, in adoration it marvels at his virtues and his works, and of itself breaks forth into praises even as the .Eolian harp emits its dulcet strains, when the wind plays on its strings. Examine now the life of your own soul and see, not whether there is more prayer in it than wors ...
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