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I have never known a pastor to be fired for prayerlessness, even though I expect that many justly could have been (myself included). There are at least three reasons for this. First, congregations rarely hold a pastor accountable for his devotional life. Second, pastors themselves too infrequently seek such accountability. Third, pastors can conceal the neglect of private duties more easily than the neglect of public duties. But what does such private neglect reveal? That a pastor fears man more than he fears God (Mike Smith).
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Seldom seest thou a man make haste to be rich, and thrive in religion. Christ’s message to John holds true; the poor are most forward in receiving and following the Gospel. As thou lovest thy zeal, beware of resolving to be rich, lest gain prove thy godliness; take heed of ambitious aspiring, lest courts and great places prove ill airs for zeal, whither it is as easy to go zealous as to return wise. Peter, while he warmed his hands, cooled his heart.
Richard Baker

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    enchir09 CHAPTER IX THE REPLACEMENT OF THE FALLEN ANGELS BY ELECT MEN (28-30); THE NECESSITY OF GRACE (30-32) 28. While some of the angels deserted God in impious pride and were cast into the lowest darkness from the brightness of…

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    enchir10 CHAPTER X JESUS CHRIST THE MEDIATOR 33. Thus it was that the human race was bound in a just doom and all men were children of wrath. Of this wrath it is written: “For all our days are wasted;…

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    enchir11 CHAPTER XI THE INCARNATION AS PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE ACTION OF GOD’S GRACE 36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended in grand and visible fashion; for what had the human nature in the man Christ…

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    enchir12 CHAPTER XII THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 38. Are we, then, to say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of Christ’s human nature, so that as God the Father generated the Word, so the Holy Spirit generated…

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    enchir13 CHAPTER XIII BAPTISM AND ORIGINAL SIN 41. Since he was begotten and conceived in no pleasure of carnal appetite–and therefore bore no trace of original sin–he was, by the grace of God (operating in a marvelous and an ineffable…

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    enchir14 CHAPTER XIV THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST’S MEDIATORIAL WORK (48-49) AND JUSTIFICATION (50-55) 48. That one sin, however, committed in a setting of such great happiness, was itself so great that by it, in one man, the whole human race…

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    enchir15 CHAPTER XV THE HOLY SPIRIT (56) AND THE CHURCH (57-60) 56. Now, when we have spoken of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity befitting our confession of faith, we go on to affirm…

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    enchir16 CHAPTER XVI PROBLEMS ABOUT HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY DIVISIONS OF THE CHURCH 60. It is more important to be able to discern and tell when Satan transforms himself as an angel of light, lest by this deception he should seduce…

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    enchir17 CHAPTER XVII FORGIVENESS OF SINS IN THE CHURCH 64. The angels are in concord with us even now, when our sins are forgiven. Therefore, in the order of the Creed, after the reference to “holy Church” is placed the…

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    enchir18 CHAPTER XVIII 140 FAITH AND WORKS 67. There are some, indeed, who believe that those who do not abandon the name of Christ, and who are baptized in his laver in the Church, who are not cut off from…

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