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99 Confession Of Faith
CONFESSION OF FAITH A list of the several articles of the belief of any church. There is some difference between creeds and confessions. Creeds in their commencement were simply expressions of faith in a few of the leading and undisputed doctrines of the Gospel. Confessions were on the contrary the result of many an hazardous and laborious effort, at the…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 5, Verse 8
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, etc.]” As in body, so in mind; let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no fellowship with them; since the day of grace has passed upon us, the darkness is gone, and the true light shines, let us walk as children of the light, living soberly, righteously,…
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Discernment That Matters
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January 8—Morning Devotion
"Thou hast kept the good wine until now."—John 2:10 The good wine of the gospel must be Jesus himself, for He, and He alone, trod the wine-press of his Father's wrath, when the Lord bruised him and put him to grief. This is the wine which, in scripture, is said to cheer both God and men; for when God's justice…
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98 Analogy Of Faith
ANALOGY OF FAITH Is the proportion that the doctrines of the gospel bear to each other, or the close connexion between the truths of revealed religion, Rom. 12:6. This is considered as a grand rule for understanding the true sense of scripture. It is evident that the Almighty doth not act without a design in the system of Christianity any…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 5, Verse 7
“For they that sleep, sleep in the night, etc.]” The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are in darkness, and are children of the night; and not proper to be indulged by such who are children of the day, and of the light: “and they that be drunken, are drunken in the…
