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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

Adam Clarke

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
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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God Jesus Christ Name Particular People Person Remember Think Thinking
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
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
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
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 is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
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Answer Appear God Knowing Name Particular Patience Person Remember Think Waiting
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Assuming Deeply Dense Frequently Grab Humility Mask Pride Under
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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Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
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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Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
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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Happiness Infinite Infinity Merit Perfect Purchased Value
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
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
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.
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Agent Anything Event Ignorance Immediate Merely Real Signify Truly
The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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Country Custom Discovered East Island Noticed Old Prevail Still Testament
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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Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul

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