| Richard Baxter - 1759 - 400 pagina’s
...be in vain to declare, if we cannot know ourlelves to be Believers or not: When it makes fuch a wide Difference between the Children of God, and the Children of the Devil: When it bids us give Diligence to make mr Calling and Ele&(on fare; and earneflly urges us to examine,... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1815 - 660 pagina’s
...in vain to declare, if we cannot know ourselves to be believers or not : when it makes such a wide difference between the children of God, and the children of the devil ; when it bids us give diligence to make our calling and election sure; and earnestly urges us to examine,... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pagina’s
...in vain to declare, if we cannot know ourselves to be believers or not ; when it makes such a wide difference between the children of God, and the children of the devil : when it bids us ' give diligence to make our calling and election sure ;' and earnestly urges us... | |
| Colin McIver - 1824 - 434 pagina’s
...habitually ; but they are not deliberately and wilfully persisted in. And this constitutes the great difference between the children of God, and the children of the Devil. We renew therefore our declaration — those who knowingly, deliberately, and habitually, live in the... | |
| Robert Wodrow - 1848 - 310 pagina’s
...from free will, all that is speciall and peculiar is from nature, " and not grace. Again, when all the difference between the children " of God and the children of the world is made to lye in this, that the one \ 138 MB. JOHN CAMERON. " makes a right use of grace, the... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pagina’s
...for our benefit, and for his glory. We cannot mistake this — It gives us to know wherein consists the difference between the children of God, and the children of the devil. To know ourselves to be the Lord's, will be for our consolation ; it will encourage our hearts, and... | |
| Benjamin Davis Winslow - 1841 - 410 pagina’s
...a state of spiritual health ; that he is going on from strength to strength ; for there is a marked difference between the children of God and the children of the devil, and "whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin." But every grace that he has, is a gift of God,... | |
| Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1849 - 726 pagina’s
...it is manifest of what he speaks: Neither he that loveth not his brother. Therefore, love alone puts the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil. Let them all sign themselves with the sign of the cross of Christ ; let them all respond, Amen ; let... | |
| Richard Baxter, John Wesley - 1848 - 346 pagina’s
...believers, may be known by conscience and internal sense. 3. The Scripture would never make such a wide difference between the children of God, and the children of the devil, and set forth the happiness of the one, and the misery of the other, and make this differ ence to run... | |
| Alonso Rodriguez - 1848 - 402 pagina’s
...to my vine that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes." (Isa. v. 4.) The difference between the children of God and the children of the world is, that the latter follow the motions of their passions, and think not of mortifying their bodies... | |
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