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"That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Cor. 1:29 | "That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Cor. 1:29 | ||
Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ. | Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ. | ||
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|[[A mystery to yourself]]<br> | |[[A mystery to yourself]]<br> | ||
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[[Down they sink to the bottom!]]<br> | [[Down they sink to the bottom!]]<br> | ||
[[Who can come out of the battle alive?]]<br> | [[Who can come out of the battle alive?]]<br> | ||
− | [[God's mercy]]<br> | + | [[God's mercy.]]<br> |
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|[[A flowery path?]]<br> | |[[A flowery path?]]<br> | ||
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|[[Tender mercies]]<br> | |[[Tender mercies]]<br> | ||
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Can Christ love one like me?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A woman's best ornament]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[O you filthy creature!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[You never knew what real happiness was!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Were it no bigger than a child's doll]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[All your filthiness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[What things were gain to me]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Looking down into a filthy pit!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The largest slice of the well-sugared cake]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Can they beat back this monster to his filthy den?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[When it comes in the guise of a friend]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Canaanitish idols & heathenish abominations]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[This inward conflict]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Desperately wicked]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[So many truly sincere & religious people]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Sick of sin, sick of self, sick of the world]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A hundred doctrines floating in the head]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[However low we may sink]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Nothing but a slave!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[A glory, a beauty & a sweetness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Having nothing—and yet possessing all things]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Riches, honours & comforts]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The continued teachings of the Spirit]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[It will come in at every chink & crevice!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[At last to cheat the devil!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Cursed is the man]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[That hideous idol self in his little shrine]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Such a perpetual & unceasing conflict?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[We need grace, free grace]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[We are not flogged into loving Him]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[O what a company of lusts!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[As if this beautiful viper had no poison fang!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The very remedy for all the maladies which we groan under!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Weaned from feeding on husks & ashes]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[That secret loveliness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Lord, I feel my own utter helplessness!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[O what a way of learning religion!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Wrought with divine power]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The more lovely does Jesus appear!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[We bring affliction upon ourselves]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A religious animal]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[What a contrast!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Sweet buy!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[God's perfect will]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Which is the more obnoxious to God]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Five devil-isms!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[This is the struggle!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[It is I]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[That sweet grace]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Slaves of Satan!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Trials, temptations, sorrows, perplexities]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Love not the world]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Paul's highest attainment]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Let God but take the cover off]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[When the cold winds are whistling over your grave]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The art of preaching]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[My desire is]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A great & inestimable mercy]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Such monsters are more fit for a travelling circus]]<br> |
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− | + | |[[An apostolic face & a Judas heart]]<br> | |
+ | [[A languishing body]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A painted bauble]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The religion which I want]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It will matter little when I lie in my coffin!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[A little drop of purity in the midst of impurity]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If Mr. Pride gets a wound in the head]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Our greatest enemy]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The end will make amends for all!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are no longer young]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[The afflictions of the ungodly]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Like a little child in the arms of eternal love]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The end of God in all His doings & dealings]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The only smile worth having]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Dead & dark seasons]]<br> | ||
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+ | |[[At the cross]]<br> | ||
+ | [[How many, O how many]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It has ruined him, body & soul]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Three books]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The whole apparatus of religion]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Things which the angels desire to look into]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This most precious & suitable Saviour!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[My path]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The desires of the flesh & of the mind]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If you are at home in the world]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Thirst]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All the devil's tricks!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A natural religiosity.]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A louder witness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Precious & glorious]]<br> | ||
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+ | |[[That was more than His holy soul could bear!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The religion of man]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The wings of a butterfly]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Yawning & lounging their time away]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The blind, three-headed idol]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Overcoming the world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We must be taught of God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This reptile heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What cold—what heartless work]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are, most of us, so fettered down]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Forever swallowed up with His presence & love]]<br> | ||
+ | [[They shall come with weeping]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When the body sinks]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The general religion of the day]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Walking with God]]<br> | ||
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+ | |[[If there were no furnace]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Known to our hearts by a divine power]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A man who reads his eyes out!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Holiness & truth]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Such exceedingly religious people]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Hard as a stone, cold as ice, motionless as a corpse]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Those divine & heavenly truths]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The grand deceit of Satan]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Divine breathings]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Shrouded in mystery]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Composed out of dead men's brains!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The caged wolf]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We have no abiding city here]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A refuge from our sinful, vile & guilty selves!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A smooth easy path]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Will not this make ample amends for all?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[To learn our religion in such a painful way]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sum & substance of the Scriptures]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Trials & afflictions]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A great lesson]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[If we were wholly left to ourselves]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When we are in the furnace]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Far better than living in this vain world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The charms of the world & the pleasures of sin]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Trials & afflictions 1]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Tender mercies 1]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The special & unceasing grace of God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[An adder would come out of every one of them!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A puzzle to myself]]<br> | ||
+ | [[I feel my ignorance in divine things]]<br> | ||
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+ | |[[Continually haunting me]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Gently whispering to you]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Almighty, though gentle, fingers]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Super-abounding grace 1]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Snares of death]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[That wonderful medicine!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A living religion]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If there were no love of sin]]<br> | ||
+ | [[These hideous monsters]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All our acts in babyhood]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[A mysterious thing]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are like truant children!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What a wretched man I am!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The grand bent of man's carnal heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When they feel leprous to the core]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Your temporal trials are included]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Don't leave my soul destitute]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Secret divine communications]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Earthen vessels]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The fruits of a godly life]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Dangerous & worst spots]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sympathy of Christ]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A question which deeply interests]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The love & worship of idols]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If a man was left by God]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[With bitter grief & mournful cry]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Seas of blood & love!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sum & substance of all vital godliness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The mountaintop of pride]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A boundless treasury of trials]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[A world of deception & falsehood]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Nothing but sovereign grace]]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:33, 5 January 2013
Man's religion & God's religion 2
"That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Cor. 1:29
Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ.