The Witness of God and Faith: Two Lay Sermons

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Longmans, Green, 1885 - Sermons, English - 121 pages
 

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Page 86 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 1 - CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us ; therefore let us keep the feast ; Not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 85 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 96 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 23 - Reason : and His communication, His revelation, is reason ; not, however, abstract reason, but reason as taking a body from, and giving life to, the whole system of experience which makes the history of man. The revelation, therefore, is not made in a day, or a generation, or a century. The divine mind touches, modifies, becomes the mind of man, through a process of which mere intellectual conception is only the beginning, but of which the gradual complement is an unexhausted series of spiritual...
Page 98 - Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow.
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Page 15 - Always bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 8 - ... be an act which, though exhibited once for all in the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, was yet eternal — the act of God Himself. For that very reason, however, it was one perpetually re-enacted, and to be re-enacted, by man.

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