Defects of Modern Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, 1881-2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1885 - 363 páginas |
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... death's hour , the works of Christian men ? " I do not intend , however , now to dwell upon flagrant and atrocious violations of Christian principle . I wish to criticise rather , respectable , mediocre Christianity . I wish to speak of ...
... death's hour , the works of Christian men ? " I do not intend , however , now to dwell upon flagrant and atrocious violations of Christian principle . I wish to criticise rather , respectable , mediocre Christianity . I wish to speak of ...
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... death and eternal damna- tion . Every one that heareth these sayings of mine , and doeth them not , shall be likened unto a foolish man , which built his house upon the sand ; . . . and it fell and great was the fall of it . " 66 To say ...
... death and eternal damna- tion . Every one that heareth these sayings of mine , and doeth them not , shall be likened unto a foolish man , which built his house upon the sand ; . . . and it fell and great was the fall of it . " 66 To say ...
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... death , of large numbers of its early pro- pagators . The call of Christ , which always demands the same spirit of self - denial , involved then , as a rule , severer actual sacrifices . His religion would have died almost as soon as it ...
... death , of large numbers of its early pro- pagators . The call of Christ , which always demands the same spirit of self - denial , involved then , as a rule , severer actual sacrifices . His religion would have died almost as soon as it ...
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... death was the sublimest vic- tory ; wanting Him to do , and wanting to do themselves , anything and everything that was incompatible with His great plan . This was how they treated Him until the end . When that came , they all forsook ...
... death was the sublimest vic- tory ; wanting Him to do , and wanting to do themselves , anything and everything that was incompatible with His great plan . This was how they treated Him until the end . When that came , they all forsook ...
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... death . Yet to - day it is only in very exceptional cases that any of these sufferings are experienced by the followers of Jesus in virtue of their disciple- ship . Nearly everything that Christ said was uttered on the supposition ...
... death . Yet to - day it is only in very exceptional cases that any of these sufferings are experienced by the followers of Jesus in virtue of their disciple- ship . Nearly everything that Christ said was uttered on the supposition ...
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Defects of Modern Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's ... Alfred Williams Momerie Visualização integral - 1885 |
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Página 199 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 34 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Página 351 - Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Página 265 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 245 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Página 350 - Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
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Página 291 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
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