| Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pages
...Christians, " to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, the godly consideration of predestination and our...full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort;" and to such only, because they experience the thing, and enjoy it, not as a curious dry speculation,... | |
| Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1806 - 336 pages
...contrary to its plain meaning; and that, when it is said, " The godly consideration of our predestination in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as fell in themselves the workings of the Spirit of Christ ;" it means, that it was a very ungodly doctrine,... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1807 - 672 pages
...Articles of the Church of England, his attention was particularly arrested by the following passage : " The godly consideration of predestination, and our...Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things." Art. xvii. Having... | |
| 1807 - 538 pages
...362 : la Christ. t God by I His. $ SOB. Aft " " As the godly consideration of predestina^ " tion and election in Christ, is full of sweet, " pleasant,...spirit of Christ, mortifying " the works of the flesh, and their earthly " members, and drawing up their mind to high " and heavenly things, as well because... | |
| Literature, Modern - 1807 - 538 pages
...consideration, it remarks, of predestination and our election in Christ," of the election of us Christians, " is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and inch as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ,'' rim Hpiritus Cltrixti; the, influence... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ I, full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to...Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...walk religiously in good works, and at length by God s mercy they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselvei the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly... | |
| Church of England homilies - 1811 - 716 pages
...religiously in good works, and, at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things ; as well because... | |
| Johnson Grant - Great Britain - 1811 - 528 pages
...tendency gave rise to that passage in the seventeenth Article, in which it is observed, that, " as the godly consideration of predestination and our...godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the workings of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the ivorks of the flesh, and their earthly members, and... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...&c.'* " If so be ye " have tasted, that the Lord is gracious."3 ' The ' godly consideration of — our election in Christ, is ' full of sweet, pleasant,...godly persons, and such as feel in themselves ' the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the ' flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up '... | |
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