Bible Encyclopedia: Deceit: Keeps from Turning to God

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Of Purity
... And this is a consenting and turning of the spirit ... It guards and keeps the senses
from without; it quells ... against all earthly things and all deceit, but opened ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xxii of purity.htm

Summary of Foregoing. Cessation of Pagan Oracles, &C. ...
... reigning in some country without appearing but keeps at home ... own Father, then at
length the deceit of the ... done away and stopped, while men, turning their eyes ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/section 55 summary of foregoing.htm

But we Need no Longer Show in this Narrow Way the Drawback of this ...
... mankind, and prevents them seeing this deceit and knowing ... as is the way with travellers,
it keeps advancing always ... to its self-imposed end, not turning aside to ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter iv but we need.htm

The New-Birth
... what he offers to God is his own heart; and this keeps him always ... power and ability
of our having one good thought, or desire of turning to God in penitence ...
/.../law/the grounds and reasons of christian regeneration/the new-birth.htm

Rom. Iii. 18-Sep
... with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of ... of the interest, but he that
keeps possession of ... who speaks of the apostrophe or turning away of God's ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily vii rom iii 18-sep.htm

Chastisements.
... in its midst, and Destruction, Oppression, and Deceit"a goodly ... goes up the slope
of Olivet, and turning perhaps at ... side of the glen, as he keeps abreast of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/xiv chastisements.htm

Acts xxviii. 1
... while," so plainly was there no deceit, no haste ... splendor to virtue: for by God's
turning the unrighteousness ... these reverses are precisely what keeps the soul ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily liv acts xxviii 1.htm

Two Ancient Proverbs
... You only teach them habits of deceit if they live ... Turning to the New Testament again,
to give an example ... brings a snare in this respect, it keeps many persons ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/two ancient proverbs.htm

Letter vi. --For 334. Easter-Day, xii Pharmuthi, vii Id. April ...
... On this account, the Lord, turning away His face ... The whole creation keeps a feast,
my brethren, and ... he kept the Passover, because he plotted deceit against the ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/letter vi for 334 easter-day xii.htm

Jacob and Esau
... to one man a temper and disposition which keeps him back ... that grand period in his
life, the turning point, when ... he wanted to get his cunning and deceit out of ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/jacob and esau.htm

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Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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