Autobiography of Madame Guyon, Volum 1

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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1897
 

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Pàgina x - but one salvation for all mankind, and that is the Life of God in the soul. God has but one design or intent towards all Mankind, and that is to introduce or generate His own Life, Light, and Spirit in them. . . . There is but one possible way for Man to attain this salvation, or Life of God in the soul.
Pàgina 64 - that I did not know ." what he had done to me, that my heart was " quite changed, that God was there ; for from " that moment he had given me an experience " of his presence in my soul: not by thought '* or any application of mind, but as a thing " really possessed after the sweetest manner.
Pàgina 159 - O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
Pàgina xi - Wisdom crieth, she putteth forth her Voice, not here, or there, but everywhere, in all the Streets of all the Parts of the World. Now there is but one possible Way for Man to attain this Salvation, or Life of God in the Soul. There is not one for the Jew, another for a Christian, and a Third for the Heathen. No ; God is one, human Nature is one, Salvation is one, and the Way to it is one ; and that is, the Desire of the Soul turned to God.
Pàgina xx - is a Spirit, and they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Pàgina 1 - I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Pàgina xi - Christian, and then all the Sacrifices, the Service, the Worship either of the Law, or the Gospel, are but dead Works, that bring no Life into the Soul, nor beget any Union between God and it. Suppose this Desire to be awakened, and fixed upon God, though in Souls that never heard either of the Law or Gospel, and then the Divine Life, or Operation of God, enters into them, and the new Birth in Christ is formed in those who never heard of his Name.
Pàgina 64 - ... the Franciscan left me. They were to me like the stroke of a dart which pierced my heart asunder. I felt at this instant deeply wounded with the love of God; — a wound so delightful, that I desired it never might be healed.
Pàgina 63 - Having said these words, he left me. They were to me like the stroke of a dart, which penetrated through my heart.
Pàgina xi - God and it. Suppose this desire to be awakened, and fixed upon God, though in souls that never heard either of the law or gospel, and then the divine life, or operation of God enters into them, and the new birth in Christ is formed in those that never heard of his name. And these are they that shall come from the east, and from the west and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac in the kingdom of God.

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