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Page 107 - God after the inward man : but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. (O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Page 111 - If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, follow me.
Page 93 - ... there is one body, and one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism ; one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in us all.
Page 105 - TRULY my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation ; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Page 53 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence : for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of GOD, though worlds Judged thee perverse.
Page 105 - Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 52 - Christian orator the free command of an elegant and copious language; the judgment to conceal the advantages which he derived from the knowledge of rhetoric and philosophy; an inexhaustible fund of metaphors and similitudes of ideas and images, to vary and illustrate the most familiar topics; the happy art of engaging the passions in the service of virtue; and of exposing the folly, as well as the turpitude, of vice, almost with the truth and spirit of a dramatic representation.
Page 44 - profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness ; that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto every good work.
Page 112 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 154 - There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. This is what shall be in the end without end. For what other end do we propose to ourselves than to attain to the kingdom of which there is no end ? I think I have now, by God's help, discharged my obligation in writing this large work.