Perfection: Saints Claim Not

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Job 9:20
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Library

On the Perfection of Patience.
... On the perfection of patience ... that the basest of men are found among the ranks of
the saints. ... themselves claimed him as their founder, and the claim is allowed ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xvi on the perfection.htm

Faustus Claims that the Manichæans and not the Catholics are ...
... the Gospel, and seeks to establish this claim by comparing ... Lord exhorts the strong
to attain perfection, saying, "If ... of giving food to the saints, but, because ...
/.../faustus claims that the manichaeans.htm

The Great Misery of those who Lose the Saints' Rest.
... Much more do they want that moral perfection which the ... are ready now to lay as confident
claim to Christ and heaven as if they were sincere, believing saints. ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter v the great misery.htm

Note A. Holiness as Proprietorship.
... effect of Love, moving God to claim His creatures ... then have no attribute expressive
of God's moral perfection. ... Being; in the holiness of the saints the deepest ...
/.../murray/holy in christ/note a holiness as proprietorship.htm

Faith in Perfection
... most assuredly, beyond a doubt, bring to perfection my faith ... and abominable, dost
thou dare still to claim a lot in the inheritance of the saints in light? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/faith in perfection.htm

Fenelon -- the Saints Converse with God
... THE SAINTS CONVERSE WITH GOD. ... we do not feel hatred for sin, and a thirst for perfection,
we can ... errors; of having purified his heart, so that he may claim as a ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons vol 2/fenelon the saints converse.htm

The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled.
... and even here the righteousness which they claim is not with reference to the divine
perfection, but only ... But when the saints implore the divine justice in ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 17 the promises of.htm

Sermon for Septuagesima Sunday
... therefore, forbidden to honour the blessed saints, but only ... all mankind, so soon
as thou shouldst claim it as ... him to know all that belongs to true perfection.]. ...
/.../ix sermon for septuagesima sunday.htm

Joy in the Holy Ghost.
... God, is His blessedness, His purity, His perfection, that nothing ... Ghost is the joy
of the love of the saints. ... let us when we have done that, claim the promise ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the masters indwelling/x joy in the holy.htm

There are Three Things to be Noticed in the Actions of Our Life. . ...
... we must see whether we can show them in perfection in any one of the saints. ... next,
justice, which assigns each man his own, does not claim another's, and ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxiv there are three.htm

Subtopics

Perfection

Perfection is of God

Perfection: All Saints Have, in Christ

Perfection: Ascribed to Asa

Perfection: Ascribed to David

Perfection: Ascribed to Jacob

Perfection: Ascribed to Job

Perfection: Ascribed to Nathanael

Perfection: Ascribed to Noah

Perfection: Ascribed to Zacharias and Elizabeth

Perfection: Blessedness of