| Benson Bailey - 1854 - 296 pàgines
...of darkness ! 2. The fear of God was enjoined upon the Jews, and is also enjoined upon us as a duty. To fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man, and whichever way we look we may find motives to prompt us to this sacred and reverential fear. If... | |
| Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1854 - 473 pàgines
...business of the church is to learn of Christ, to know his laws and institutions, and to walk by them ; to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. The church has no power to bestow rewards nor to inflict punishments ; this alone is the prerogative... | |
| Jonathan Dymond - 1854 - 644 pàgines
...of favour. To hear the " sayings of Christ and do them,"f is the means of obtaining his approbation. To " fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man."J Even superior intelligences are described as " doing his commandments, hearkening unto the voice... | |
| John Ernest Bode - 1855 - 314 pàgines
...be decided that "no man can say that Jesus is the Lord except by the Holy Ghost." Let us be decided that "to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man." Let us, lastly, as ministers of the Gospel, be decided that "to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified"... | |
| 1855 - 422 pàgines
...Blessed is he of whom it is testified, that, like Hananiah, he fears God above many (Neh. vii. 2) ; for to " fear God and keep his commandments is the whole (duty) of man." That is his great business, his true blessedness, and the grand end of his being (Eccles. xii. 13).... | |
| Jonathan Dymond - 1855 - 440 pàgines
...favour. To hear the " sayings of Christ and do them," § is the means of obtaining his approbation. To " fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man."|| Even superior intelligences are described as " doing his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of... | |
| Alfred M. Lorrain - 1855 - 268 pàgines
...of spirit!" And, after all his traverse-sailing, and boxing of the compass, he arrived only at this: "To fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man." Honor ean not make as happy. Look at Hainan! This man arrived at the highest pinnacle of honor he could... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1855 - 468 pàgines
...the being of God, is it not a folly also uot to worship God, when we acknowledge his existence? uTo fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man/' We are not reasonable if we are not religious. " Yonr reasonable :ervice," Romans xil. 1. 3. If it... | |
| Asa Griswold - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...individual, according to the character and conduct of such individual before death. It is recorded, that "to fear God, and keep His commandments, is the whole duty of man." According to the sentiment of an apostle, "to fear God, and keep His commandments," is "our reasonable... | |
| Nathan Dow George - 1856 - 430 pàgines
...adds : " Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment," &c. By judgment ia here meant an examination of conduct, a bringing to light of seeret... | |
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