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10 references for 1 Thessalonians
Scriptural Christianity
4. It was, to give them (what none can deny to be essential to all Christians in all ages) the mind which was in Christ, those holy fruits of the Spirit, which whosoever hath not, is none of his; to f...
The Great Assize
And, first, God will show "signs in the earth beneath" (Acts 2:19); particularly He will "arise to shake terribly the earth." " The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed li...
The Great Assize
3. With regard to the place where mankind will be judged, we have no explicit account in Scripture. An eminent writer (but not he alone; many have been of the same opinion) supposes it will be on eart...
Sermon 114
Multiplied our wandering thought, Which first was fix'd on God alone;
In ten thousand objects sought The bliss we lost in one.
12. These idols, these rivals of God, are innumerable; but they may be ...
Sermon 135
Against this fault, which is inconsistent with those virtues, and, therefore, tacitly forbidden in the precepts that enjoin them, St. Paul warns us in express words: "I would not have you to be ignora...
On Perfection
7. Again: He writes to the Christians at Ephesus, of "putting on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness;" and to the Colossians, of "the new man, renewed after the...
On Perfection
6. The prayer of St. Paul for the Thessalonians, that God would "sanctify" them throughout, and "that the whole of them, the spirit, the soul, and the body, might be preserved blameless," will undoubt...
On Perfection
This you affirm. But it is a thing of so deep importance, that it cannot be allowed without clear and cogent proof. And where is the proof We know that, in general, "the gifts and calling of God are w...
On Patience
14. Ye shall then be perfect. The Apostle seems to mean by this expression, teleioi, ye shall be wholly delivered from every evil work; from every evil word; from every sinful thought; yea, from every...
Sermon 118
I. 1. And, First, "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." If thine eye be single; if God is in all thy thoughts; if thou art constantly aiming at Him that is invisible; if it ...