| William Mason - 1765 - 522 pagine
...love of God. Thus saith the God of love, " Consider your ways," Hag. i. 5. FEB. 10. — The path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. — Prov. iv. 18. Since the fall of man, there is no other way of being made just,... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1804 - 320 pagine
...degrees, and sometimes very slowly, into the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour. And thus " The path of the just is as " the shining light, which shineth more " and more unto the perfect day." This evidently refers to Growth in Grace. And it receives its accomplishment as the... | |
| Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pagine
...of truth ; and though you cannot know all, encourage yourself with the thought, " that the path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day."* CHAP. II. Religion not speculative. Experience explained and defended. Particular... | |
| John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pagine
...and he shines brighter as he rises higher, and the Scripture is fulfilled which says, " The path of the just is as the shining light, •which shineth more and more, unto the perfect day." The happy consequence of this will be, we shall be more fully acquainted with the... | |
| Stephen Lowry - 1809 - 204 pagine
...increase. This is verified in experience, and agreeableto the declaration of the wise man — " The path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more to the perfect day."*: " The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pagine
...wholly destitute of a saving acquaintance with the first principles of the gospel ; for the path " of the just is as the " shining light, which shineth more and more " unto the perfect day." Are your memories treacherous and like a leaky vessel? If you really lament this... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 584 pagine
...laid, to bring jorth fruit unto God (Rom vii. 4.) in every instance (Mat. xiii. 23.) And the path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. (Prov. iv. 18.) If he fulleth, he riseth up again. (Prov. xxiv. 16.) Every branch... | |
| 1811 - 706 pagine
...admit and require continual progress, which, begun OD earth, shall be perfected in heaven. The path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day\. Religion is, in /fine, that power, that energy, that spirit, which must over-rule... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pagine
...shiill be as Mount Sion, which cannot " be removed, but standeth fast for ever."0 " Th« " path of the just is as the shining light,. which " shineth more and more unto the perfect day."7 1 1 Sam.xii. 22. Rom. ix. 1 — 0. 1 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. Is. Iv. 3. Ileb. xiii. 19-... | |
| 1811 - 872 pagine
...secrets." " Then iha№ ye know," says the apostle, " if ye follow im to know the Lord." " For the path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more to the perfect day." Our religious course, is a course of successive discoveries : it is a state of... | |
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