In such a state of society, although the relation of servitude was not in itself adverse to a holy life, the prudent man would prefer to be secured against the possibility of such a wrong, by securing his liberty if he lawfully could.
Footnote 216: See here particularly, de pudicitia 1, where Tertullian sees the virginity of the Church not in pure doctrine, but in strict precepts for a holy life.
No one reads his work who does not perceive the happiness, even in this world, of a holy life, or who does not wish to die the death of a saint.
Could a holy life, an innocent, harmless conversation, have saved one from death, Jesus had not died.
Having a particular confidence in the powerful intercession of St. Victor, the martyr at Milan, he earnestly implored through it the grace to lead a holy life as he informs us.
St. Basil gave him many rules of holy life, and after long spiritual conferences dismissed him with great esteem, having first ordained his companion priest.
The meaning then is this, that living a holy life is the way, after a man has believed unto justification, to keep himself in the savour and comfort of the love of God.
Isa 41:1) Without faith a man cannot please God, because he cannot without it stand before him in the spotless righteousness of Christ, nor yet depart from iniquity, and live a holy life.
Your 15th chapter is to shew, That the gospel giveth far greater helps to an holy life, than the Jewish ceremonies did of old.
At his first coming hither he was an instrument of the conversion of several to God and a holy life; but was not afterwards so successful here as in other places.
The beauty and enjoyment of a holy life is that it can always be improved upon.
Untidiness, uncleanness, carelessness, and shabbiness are not at all beautiful ornaments in a holy life.
The Word of God is a lamp to light us into a holy life.
It made me love a holy life, and long to do something for the honour and glory of the name of the Lord Jesus; yea, I thought that had I now a thousand gallons of blood in my body, I could spill it all for the sake of the Lord Jesus.
The recovery of a backslider usually begins at the remembrance of former things--(Bunyan's Holy Life, vol.
Under its first aspect faith says, I know I am in Him, and all His Holiness is mine; in its second aspect it speaks, I trust in Him for the grace and the strength I need each moment to live a holy life.
With such a Sanctifier, how comes it that so many seekers after holiness fail so sadly, and know so little of the joy of a holy life?
May I know Him as He wrought out that holiness, to be communicated to us in a new human nature, making it possible for us to live a holy life.
Faith in Jesus is the secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.
A holy life is to be baptized and to believe in Christ, and to subdue the flesh with the Spirit.
I can find plenty of examples for a holy life in Abraham, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Paul, and other saints.
A holy life is made up,” says Bonar, “of a number of small things.
On the contrary if I may say so they only gave the smoke, for the course was pointed out by the abiding elements of the Gospel, trust in God and the Lord Christ, the resolution to a holy life, and a firm bond of brotherhood.
That presupposition is simply a proclamation of the one God and of Christ transferred to Greek soil, fixed merely in its leading features and otherwise very plastic, accompanied by a message regarding the future, and demands for a holy life.
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