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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

Adam Clarke

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
ADAM CLARKE

Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
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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Fill Filled Fullness Great Greater Thing
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE

Consider Deeply Duty Holy Interest Read Scripture
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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Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Action Allow Energies Energy Faith Happiness Secret Stagnate Trust
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
ADAM CLARKE

Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
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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Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Abraham Angel Expiation Human Nature Jesus Christ might People Redeemer Seed
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
ADAM CLARKE

Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Arrived Degree Eminence Fame Memorial Person Private Public Regretted Written
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
ADAM CLARKE

Clay Hardens Hardness Same Softens Sun Wax
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE

Assuming Deeply Dense Frequently Grab Humility Mask Pride Under
Anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKE

Agent Anything Event Ignorance Immediate Merely Real Signify Truly
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!
ADAM CLARKE

Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul

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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