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Adam Clarke

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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Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
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.
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Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
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Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Cleansed Completely Death Die Fit Glory Sanctified Sin State
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Expect Gospel. Preacher Honor Jesus Jesus Christ Look Resurrection
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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Christ Faith Genuine Good Jesus Christ Law Love Productive Remembered Work
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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Approach Bible Island King People Sea Verse
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
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
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
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Absorbed Gift Man Must Nothing Preacher Seem
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.
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Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
He will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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Enable Hand Jesus Christ Pleased Prosper Satan Sin Strong

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