 | 1840 - Страниц: 520
...love of Christ. The more we know him, if we have his Spirit, the more we shall love him. And secondly, He has left us an example that we should follow in his steps. The clear knowledge of the example is obviously one of the requisites for proper imitation. I now commend... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - Страниц: 742
...us, under the various trials with which we have to contend ; and let us remember, that in this also he has "left us an example that we should follow in his steps," and • look not every man on his own things, but every man on the things of others." How strange that... | |
 | Christian Mariner, Christian mariner - 1829 - Страниц: 290
...and assimilate us to the likeness of Christ. He passed a tempestuous and stormy life on earth, and has left us an example that we should follow in his steps. He watches our course with the deepest interest, and while we cast all our care upon him, we need not... | |
 | William NORRIS (Rector of Warblington, Hants.) - 1830 - Страниц: 372
...what his Lord doeth, but I have called you friends. WHEN the apostle tells us that our blessed Saviour has left us " an example that we should follow in his steps 1 ," he does not point our attention only to his great and exalted qualities, the objects of our admiration,... | |
 | Anne C. M., Mary Atkinson MAURICE - 1833 - Страниц: 334
...the heart and soul of those who, feeling his constrained love, would press forward, knowing that " he has left us an example that we should follow in his steps." I cannot see that the apostles of Christ, any more than their Master, speak of the moral law as abolished;... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 650
...pusillanimity '' and " slavish abjectness of mind." And yet He, who " when he suffered, threatened not," has " left us an example that we should follow in his steps " (1 Pet. ii. 21, &c.J. Experience, however, might have taught both these writers the groundlessness... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 320
...defect in my character; and mould my temper and conduct according to the image of the Saviour ; who has left us an example, that we should follow in his steps. Make me a partaker of his holiness, that I may escape the corruption that is in the world ; and that... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 302
...— 56 ; who pitied his persecutors, Luke xix. 41 ; prayed for his murderers, Luke xxiii. 34 ; and has left us an example that we should follow in his steps, 1 Pet. ii. 21. " Seek the influence of the Holy Spirit. The indulgence of clamour, wrath, envy, evil-speaking*... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1842 - Страниц: 324
...the piety of Jesus, the standard of piety that is set before his people. The apostle Peter says lie has left us an example, that we should follow in his steps ; and John says, " He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked."... | |
 | 1868 - Страниц: 300
...and glory, and endeared to us specially through its open observance by our dear Mast« himself, who has left us an example that we should follow in his steps. JANUARY 1, 1868. 1 Can we then possibly pay too much deference or too strictly adhere to this ordinance... | |
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... 7. We learn from what has been said respecting the piety of Jesus, the standard of piety that is set before his people. The apostle Peter says he has left us an example, that we should follow in his steps ; and John says, " He that saith he abideth... 
