Bible Dictionary: Spiritual Life: Has Its Infancy

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Luke 10:21
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in your sight.
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1 Corinthians 3:1,2
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.
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1 John 2:12
I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
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The Mission of Little Children
... "Gentle and undefiled, with blessings on its head ... has it indeed become a very angel
of God for us, and is it calling us to a more spiritual life, and does ...
/.../chapin/the crown of thorns/the mission of little children.htm

Thomas Traherne and the Spiritual Poets of the Seventeenth Century
... has {332} its "dreggy parts," that it has been "muddied ... to be made instead to see
the spiritual glory of the earth and sky, the beauty of life, the sweetness ...
/.../chapter xvii thomas traherne and.htm

The Beams of Our Houses are of Cedar and Our Carved Ceilings are ...
... by human authority, and forgetting everything that has its origin in ... union, under
the veil of this spiritual modesty, by ... leads upon the earth the life that the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/16 the beams of our.htm

Eternal Life.
... creep sometimes over the brightest faith has already received ... death to the natural
man destroy the spiritual? Shall death, or life, or angels, or principalities ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/eternal life.htm

The Barren Fig-Tree.
... to perceive that the number three has any necessary ... Besides the life and faculties
which we possess in common with others, we have spiritual privileges which ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xx the barren fig-tree.htm

Mortality.
... In plant, animal, and spiritual life mortality is greatest in ... smallest insect feeding
upon one of its tiny roots ... After it has formed more roots and they have ...
/.../orr/food for the lambs or helps for young christians/mortality.htm

Of Two Degrees of Perfection with which this Commandment May be ...
... He was dead, said his father, and is come to life again, [448] he has revived. ... with
excess; as also our vocations, be they never so spiritual: our exercises ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iv of two degrees.htm

Growth in Grace
... stake in the hedge will not grow; but a plant that has a vegetative life grows ... a
Christian grows in grace, the more he comes to his spiritual complexion, and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/9 growth in grace.htm

The New Nature
... If that does not teach that the spiritual nature which ... The babe has not yet the glory
of full ... glory and becomes a tottering imbecile before life becomes extinct ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/the new nature.htm

Encouragement for the Depressed
... The day of small things has its beauty and its excellence ... are getting dainty now
perhaps; but in those first young days of spiritual life, what appetites ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/encouragement for the depressed.htm