Bible Dictionary: Fruits: First of, Devoted to God

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Deuteronomy 26:2
That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.
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The Study of the Gospels is the First Fruits Offered by These ...
... is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
If, then, it be our desire to have the whole of those first fruits ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/4 the study of the.htm

Instructed in the Law of God
... The earlier part of the day was devoted to religious ... also made to support the public
worship of God. ... lots," Nehemiah writes, "to bring the first fruits of our ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 56 instructed in the.htm

How Bishop Cedd, Having a Place for Building a Monastery Given Him ...
... same bishop, called Caelin, a man no less devoted to God ... reeds and rushes;" that
is, that the fruits of good ... But the man of God, desiring first to cleanse the ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxiii how bishop cedd.htm

On the First Sin of the First Man
... it was to be a confession of devoted submission and ... of these two arguments occupies
the first station, with ... of such abundant plenty of good and various fruits. ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 7 on the first.htm

The Epistle to the Romans
... In this part we have first the introduction, containing the ... experience that is rich
in spiritual fruits, and proceeds on ... at Rome that they be devoted to God ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/the epistle to the romans.htm

An Address to the Regenerate, Founded on the Preceding Discourses.
... many years that have passed since I was first brought into ... that you should be a kind
of frst-fruits of his ... who are, not in form, but in reality, devoted to God ...
/.../doddridge/practical discourses on regeneration/discourse x an address to.htm

Prayer and God's Work
... If we were more holy in heart and life, thoroughly devoted to God ... He freely confesses
that he and Charles are the first cause, in this ... "By their fruits ye shall ...
/.../bounds/the essentials of prayer/vii prayer and gods work.htm

Of the Second Degree of Our Inward Exercise, which Increases ...
... Thence come dew and rain; and the fruits increase and ... of which you have heard in
the first degree; when ... in these virtues, have been offered up and devoted to God ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xvii of the second.htm

Anathema and Grace
... the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be devoted and destroyed. ... coming as the complement
and necessary issue of the first. ... It is a heart devoid of the fruits of love ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/anathema and grace.htm

Some More Particular Directions for Maintaining Continual ...
... attempts of this kind among the pleasantest fruits, and the ... read a portion of Scripture
in the first place, with ... waking hours, be in some sense devoted to God. ...
/.../chapter xix some more particular.htm