Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church

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When it was difficult to obtain copies of the Bible, Christians were known to commit large portions of the Scriptures to memory. p. 25, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. They retained the truth in the love of it, and honored the cause of truth by giving a proper reason of their hope. Now is less required of those who live in this favored age, when Bibles and other useful books can be so easily obtained, and when an increase of light is shining from the word of God? p. 25, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. But some will say, I cannot read the Bible, or other good books. Answer. A blessing is pronounced on those who hear, as well as on those who read. Rev, i, 3. And how can persons be blessed for hearing unless they learn and retain what they hear? p. 26, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. If the loins of our minds are girded with truth, we shall be prepared to meet the temptations of the enemy, and the objections of the opposers of truth, as Jesus did when he quoted scripture to Satan. And if we do what we can on our part to retain and obey the truth, we may expect that the Holy Spirit will bring the truth to our remembrance, and thus make up for our lack of memory. p. 26, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Imagination. p. 26, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. Imagination is "the power or faculty of the mind by which it perceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense." Webster. It is by this faculty that ideal images, or pictures of absent objects and scenes are formed. For instance, when in the silence of the night, reviewing the events of the day, we see the persons that we have visited, the country through which we have passed, and other things which have struck our vision, it is the imagination that pictures these things in our minds. p. 26, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. Imagination was designed to represent real and true objects and scenes; but it sometimes goes farther than this: it creates things that are unreal and untrue. p. 26, Para. 5, [HOLINESS]. This is seen in Mythology, where we read the description of creatures and scenes which have existed only in the imagination. This is also seen in the description of the
future state given by Mahomet; also in the doctrine of purgatory, and in many other fanciful doctrines which are the fruit of unsanctified imaginations. p. 26, Para. 6, [HOLINESS]. Imagination is naturally unruly, and is often used in picturing scenes that encourage the practice of sin, in magnifying the faults of others, and in manufacturing mountains of difficulties out of nothing. To illustrate we will suppose a case: A. and B. meet together. They have always been on good terms. A. moves along toward B. to pass compliments as on other occasions, but observes that B. is sad and rather backward in his remarks. These individuals part. A. looks back to the interview he has had with B. and calls up B. in his imagination, and says, How cold and sour he looked. How he stood off. How little he said. He never treated me so coldly. And the enemy comes in, and adds and adds to the picture, till B. looks ugly, independent and hard, and A. feels that he has been slighted and abused without a cause, and that B. has something against him. Soon A. and B. meet again. But this time B. comes up cheerfully, and A. stands off. Says B. What is the matter, Bro. A.? What is the matter, replies A.? You ought to know. You treated me coldly the other day without a just cause, and you have something against me. What makes you think so says B.? I know it is so, answers A. But B. replies, Why, dear Bro., I was examining my own heart and thinking about my imperfections, and since then I have got help, and I now feel free. p. 27, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. This is one case out of many in which we see the wrong use that is made of imagination. p. 27, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. If A. had examined his own imperfections and checked his imagination, this trial might have been avoided. With many, an unsanctified imagination takes the lead, and the fruit is evil-surmisings, hatred, envy, lust, evil-speaking, unnecessary trials in families, in neighborhoods, and in the church of God, castles built in the air, fanaticism, etc. p. 27, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. But imagination may be very useful, and a source of much comfort. Would you derive real benefit and comfort from this faculty? Then employ it in picturing useful objects and scenes. Let it represent all that is lovely in the appearance and actions of others, and if you suffer it to represent the evil conduct of others, let it be only that
Page 1 and 2: Daniel T. Bourdeau: 1835-1905 p. 1,
Page 3 and 4: into subjection to the will of God,
Page 5 and 6: Christ, let us go on to perfection;
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Page 9 and 10: When John the Baptist was preaching
Page 11 and 12: worship of the beast (papacy). By t
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Page 15 and 16: By it we appropriate to ourselves t
Page 17: can feast, and of which they can in
Page 21 and 22: on just and reasonable motives, on
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Page 25 and 26: doctrine. This was the case with an
Page 27 and 28: e dearer to us than life, and we sh
Page 29 and 30: works cannot be wrought and brought
Page 31 and 32: the senses; and Christians cannot k
Page 33 and 34: But we are to cleanse ourselves fro
Page 35 and 36: As God does nothing in vain, it is
Page 37 and 38: Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. The great apos
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Page 41 and 42: And first, the tongue is rightly us
Page 43 and 44: the world. p. 57, Para. 2, [HOLINES
Page 45 and 46: for this sin, and of the necessity
Page 47 and 48: employed in telling the truth. The
Page 49 and 50: e justified or condemned in that da
Page 51 and 52: present too many new ideas at once,
Page 53 and 54: praise and honor of men, to receive
Page 55 and 56: But to keep our bodies pure, we mus
Page 57 and 58: eing who is one with the Father, an
Page 59 and 60: who love aright are filled with the
Page 61 and 62: p. 80, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Again w
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eareth witness with our spirit that
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"There are some who place great dep
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examination. We are too apt to leav
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judge sitting on a criminal case. I
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of God become holy. p. 101, Para. 4
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From certain texts of Scripture we
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etc. In the previous chapter we are
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understood that there are condition
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you are overcoming. p. 112, Para. 1
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put forth in fighting, and the exer
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est of Scripture is but a commentar
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not commit adultery. Do not kill."
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make us love. It takes love to keep
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we have to perform to obtain help f
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is within thy gates: for in six day
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Again, they performed actual labor
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This is a species of our own work,
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abroad. p. 136, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]
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necessary that we should spend a po
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the seal of God. Again, the words s
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