The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKEPride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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