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LOVE596 toendure thislittlemarked by andAnd this may result in a temposometimes very serious, and which isopposition.rary hardening, whichisconsists in the fact that the saintnext time to break with hissin,by his ...
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!TEMPORARY HARDENING597A blessed emotion unknown for years makes itself felt. The dry eye becomes dim and the inflexible knee and stiff neck bend in prayer. And the mercy and long-suffering of God cause the fresh oil to flow, and, with a self-abasement hitherto unknown, the s ...
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LOVE6oo It istrue thatsome nations have labored among the heathenwith great success; there are even some smallheathen nationswhich, owing to their contact with excellent Christian men, gov-may be said to have come into contact with they did not rec ...
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—XXXV. The Hardeningof Nations."Theelection hath obtainedrestwere hardened."it,Rom.and the xi. 7.St. Paul's word, at the head of this article, is strikingly impres-and its content exceedingly rich and instructive. It cle ...
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THE HARDENING OF NATIONS their missionaries,may599well ask themselves whether by such play-ing at missions they do not increase their own responsibilities rather than those of the heathen nations. How serious these responsibilities, especially regarding the heathen and ...
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!THE HARDENING OF NATIONS ronment.In likewithout whichmanismattermanner thereit isisown"Everystore"; and with such-like sinful jests theEvery new clerkdismissed.knowevery trade a ...
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LOVE602and clay in Friesland and in Gelderland? But if we possess deeper insight and larger life, owing to the more favorable circumstances of environment and education, we should not boast ourselves. If we had been planted in such dry ground, we should probably have grown up just a ...
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XXXVI. TheApostolic Love. "He hathblinded their eyes and hard-ened their hearts." —/oAnxii. 40.its most awful manifestaexponent not in Jeremiah, the stern preacher of repentance, nor in St. Paul, the logic confessor and witness of the divine sovereignty, ...
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LOVE6o4 deliveritfromRomanbondage, Jesus presented to them the claimsof faith, then they resistedHim, and theevil in their eyesbetrayedThe same Nazarene whom a with the waving of palms, they nowthe opposite of peace in t ...
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!;THE APOSTOLIC LOVE605Jerusalem twenty years ago but the apostle declares that this somber prophecy of the completed hardening was fulfilled to its fullest ;men who were then who were hardened byextent only in thethe leaders of public opinion ...