The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKEThey who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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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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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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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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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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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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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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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.
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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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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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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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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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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