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Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians

Ryle, J. C. (John Charles), 1816-1900· 3 chapters· 122,506 words

(4) This paper may fall into the hands of some one who _reads the Bible much, and yet fancies he is no better for his reading_. This is a crafty temptation of the devil. At one stage he says, "Do not read the Bible at all." At another he says, "Your reading does you no good: g...

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2. xxiii. 13) He says to them, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,

hypocrites!" For sinners of the worst description He always had a word of kindness, and held out to them an open door. But formalism, He would have us know, is a desperate disea...

1. dim. A religion of deep Bible knowledge, is a firm and lasting

(4) This paper may fall into the hands of some one who _reads the Bible much, and yet fancies he is no better for his reading_. This is a crafty temptation of the devil. At one...

3. xxiv. 15), that until those words can be proved to form no part of

The favourite argument of the advocates of this doctrine, that "death, dying, perishing, destruction," and the like, are phrases which can only mean "cessation of existence," is...