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To be near unto God - pagina 517
our consciousness fails us, the nearness of God continues to support the soul, which he has calledunto himself.But however closely these two are allied, they must always be carefully distinguished. Whether God is near unto us, and whether we are near unto God, is not the same. And i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 520
to introduce intermediarj^ persons between our soul and God, to whom to look for help rather than to God. It is plain, therefore, that for the sake of correcting this abuse, safety was sought in sobriety, and that with holy enthusiasm it was undertaken not to allow. oneself to be drawm away in hi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 521
communion with that world is possible. When the Psalmist would praise God, he calls upon the angels to praise and bless the Lord (Ps. 103) There is an host of the Lord that encampeth round about them that fear God. Not only Satan, the head of .but good angels, too, are in communication wit ...
To be near unto God - pagina 518
tion: Thy will be done on earth among us as in heaven among thy angels. Here the reference to heaven is immediate. Here both the similarity and the difference of life on earth and life in heaven is simultaneously shown. Here Jesus urges us that in prayer, and in seeking the nearness of God, we sh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 519
Patmosit was the same. There, too, the seer's beheld the holy One, and also the Cherubim who reveal God's majesty, and what is more, from ''the elders," i. e. from the circles of the "Thou, Lord, blest, he heard the hymn of praise:e\-eworthy to receive glory and honor and pow ...
To be near unto God - pagina 522
natural has come upon you. Not alone, but "With the saints," we will come to the knowledge of our God, and if in eternity it will be the wonderful exaltation of life together with all angels and all saints to glorify God forever, why, then, should we forsake and neglect the glorious power which a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 523
takes care of himself, because, in case his sin be-Acame known, it would injure his good name. third strives against a temptation because indulgence would ruin him financially. A fourth puts a mark against a given sin because in his narrower circle of life it is sharply condemned. O ...
To be near unto God - pagina 524
expression of godliness, and at the same time a precious means of cherishing nearness unto God. See it in the life of nations and associations, how waging a common war brings people together, closely unites them, and makes connections for the present and the future. When France at length obtained ...
To be near unto God - pagina 525
Indeed, there are bosom-sins, and fault, when the heart is so little known to itself, that no confession can be made before God of the sin that most assaults and conquers self. And it cannot fail but that everyone who takes his private life seriously is more parsurrounding. itisno m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 527
nearer unto God, but every time threwuponyou backyourself.Should we then give up the struggle against the sin that tempts us most, that we might resist the numerous lesser sins? By no means. He who leaves the main entrance to a fortress unprotected merely to repel assa ...
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