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41441 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 118.5 (William Warren Prescott)

… of spiritual revolution, amendment, purification, holiness, as to our need of getting, somehow in spite of our guilt, our liability, our debt, our deserved condemnation …

41442 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 119.2 (William Warren Prescott)

… and spiritual experience; and, in particular, because it contrasted so vividly with the nugatory righteousness of earlier days.

41443 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 120.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… vast spiritual upheaval of the church. It is not by any means the only great truth considered in the two epistles; we should woefully misread them if we allowed …

41444 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 128.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… , no spiritual blessing is of the highest order, unless it leads to this, that we learn to wait for the return of our Lord. We must not think to find our portion, even …

41445 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 129.5 (William Warren Prescott)

… is spiritual, providential, figurative.”

41446 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 133.7 (William Warren Prescott)

… for spiritual life and service. It is unfair to Christ himself, for it obscures the reality of his personal presence within the heavenly veil, and substitutes …

41447 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 139.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… the spiritual kingdom came to them in vain. So today the kingdom of this world absorbs men’s thoughts, and they take no note of the rapidly fulfilling prophecies …

41448 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 158.2 (William Warren Prescott)

… the spiritual reign of Christ-a temporal millennium before the end of the world-was not sustained by the word of God. This doctrine, pointing to a thousand …

41449 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 158.3 (William Warren Prescott)

… the spiritual reign of Christ was not hold by the apostolic church. It was not generally accepted by Christians until about the beginning of the eighteenth …

41450 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 164.3 (William Warren Prescott)

… to spiritualize away the very truths which lead us to look upon it as our home. Christ assured his disciples that he went to prepare mansions for them in the …

41451 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 165.3 (William Warren Prescott)

… , and spiritualize away this city into aerial nothingness, how unmeaning, yea, even bordering upon folly, do these minute descriptions appear; but if we take …

41452 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 167.3 (William Warren Prescott)

… of Spiritualism are accepted by the churches, the restraint imposed upon the carnal heart is removed, and the profession of religion will become a cloak …

41453 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 170.2 (William Warren Prescott)

… a spiritual experience like his. The same work must be wrought in us. We must behold God, and in beholding him lose sight of self.”- Testimonies for the Church 8 …

41454 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 177.7 (William Warren Prescott)

… substantial spiritual reality to communicate to us, that truth has its existence in the Spirit of God: he is the Spirit, the inner life of that divine truth …

41455 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 182.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… expected, spiritual drought, spiritual darkness, spiritual declension and death. Minor matters occupy the attention, and the divine power which is necessary …

41456 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 190.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… his spiritual life in which there is such a total self-surrender to God and such an infilling of the Holy Spirit, that he is freed from the bondage of sinful …

41457 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 190.2 (William Warren Prescott)

“This witness of the Spirit is the assuring conviction of the new birth and of the spiritual life which is wrought in the heart by the direct agency of the Holy Spirit of God.”

41458 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 191.1 (William Warren Prescott)

… the spiritual nature of Christ’s kingdom, though he had so often explained it to them. Their minds had become confused. They did not comprehend the value of …

41459 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 195.4 (William Warren Prescott)

4. The presence of God gives rest and makes holy, and it was the blessing of his presence which made the Sabbath a day of spiritual rest and “hallowed it,” or constituted it a holy day. Exodus 33:14; 3:4, 5; Joshua 5:15; Genesis 2:3, ARV.

41460 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 195.5 (William Warren Prescott)

5. The rest from physical work on the seventh day of the week is an outward token of our rest from our own works, which are sinful, and our entrance into that spiritual rest which comes as the result of ceasing from sin. Hebrews 4:1-5, 10, ARV.