PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 13
James Hastings · 184,906 words · 190 reading sections
Section 181
Wisest of sparrows that sparrow which sitteth alone Perched on the housetop, its own upper chamber, for nest: Wisest of swallows that swallow which timely has flown Over the turbulent sea to the land of its rest: Wisest of sparrows and swallows, If I were as wise ! Wisest of spirits that spirit which dwelleth apart …
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486 THE ASSURANCE OF SONSHIP the exact weight and rhythm of the pendulum that swings there, or the faultless going-order of the well-cleaned wheels. It is possible for the local mechanism to be at fault and to vary in its time-keeping virtues, and the citizens are not left to the mercy of its supposed inerrancy. At no…
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1. Have we obtained deliverance from a carnal mind ? " For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." The carnal is not always the sensual; it includes those temptations into which a man's spirit has infused a charm. Freedom from this is the …
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The subject of this verse of the chapter is the Inheritance of the children of God. I. The Inheritance belongs to the Children. II. The Inheritance is God. III. It is a Joint-Inheritance with Christ. IV. The condition of enjoying it is that we suffer with Christ. 494 JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST I. The Inheritance bel…
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^[ The promises of men are often lightly given. " A canvassing party," says Sir Wilfrid Lawson, " went to the house of an elector in Manchester, but only his wife was at home. They explained to her what they had come for, and on leaving said : ' You know what we want, we want your husband's vote for Mr. ; do you thin…
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The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets.2 1 Robert Bridges. 2 J. H. Jowett. ROMANS viii. 17 499 III. It is a Joint-Inhemtance. "Joint-heirs with Christ." The proper possessor of the Inheritance indeed is "the Son of God," the only-begotten o…
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A blue bird built his nest Here in my breast. 0 bird of Light! Whence comest thou? Said he : From God above : My name is Love. A mate he brought one day, Of plumage gray. 0 bird of Night ! Why comest thou ? Said she: Seek no relief! My name is Grief.1 i. Christ's Suffering. 1. Christ's suffering is in one sense soli…
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ii. Our Suffering. 1. If a Christian has the Spirit and life of Christ in him, his career will be moulded, imperfectly but really, by the same Spirit that dwelt in his Lord; and similar causes will produce corresponding effects. The life of Christ which — Divine, pure, incapable of copy and repetition — in one aspect …
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(3) Pity. Christ went out into the world in the spirit of sympathy with, and compassion for, the common weaknesses and infirmities and sins of men. We can share in the suffering which His pity brought Him. " Hide not thyself from thine own flesh." We may clutch at the advantage of our worldly position to screen ourselv…
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I could have sung as sweet as any lark Who in unfettered skies doth find him blest, And sings to leaning angels prayer and praise, For in God's garden the most lowly nest. But came the cares — a grey and stinging throng Of Lilliputian foes, whose thrust and dart Did blind my eyes and hush my song in tears; Their br…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.