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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SEEMON II. THE SONS OF GOD. John i. 12. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of Ood. This is one of the encouraging passages of Scripture, full of mercy and of hope. But the words immediately before it are of a different character: ?' He came unto his own, and his own received him not.' And even the text itself when put out more fully by the same St. John, in another part of bis writings, becomes, not indeed less full of mercy, but mixed with something of a more sober character, such as we cannot afford to spare. ' Beloved, ' says St. John in his first Epistle. ' now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself, even as he is pure.' What I have read has not consisted of many words, yet it furnishes matter of thought more than enough to occupy all the time which we have now before us. Let us see the principal points which it presents to us, each in its proper order. First, those who were Christ's own did not receive Him. Secondly, To those who did receive Him, He gave power, or, as the margin of our translation reads it, He gave the privilege, of becoming the sons of God. Thirdly, St. John declares for himself and his fellow Christians, that this great privilege was to them not wholly future; that they were then, in fact, enjoying it, yet not to the full; for there was more of the promise yet to be fulfilled, and that in a sense so high, that they could not as yet so much as conceive it. But meanwhile, so enjoying for the present, so hoping for the future, he declares that neither the enjoyment nor the hope were idle; they engrossed his whole being, insomuch th.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217870023 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217870023 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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