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“Religion is a reflection of the divine perfections, the image of the Almighty shining in the soul of man. It is a real participation of his nature. It is a beam of the eternal light, a drop of that infinite ocean of goodness. And those who are endowed with it can said to have God dwelling in their souls and Christ formed within them” (Pgs. 37-38).
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Braxton Bragg
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A chief reason Christian’s ought to dedicate themselves to the study of God’s attributes:
“The true way to ennoble and improve ourselves is by fixing our love on the divine perfections, and we should always have them before us and derive an impression of them upon ourselves” (Pg. 72).
In other words, Scougal is saying that it’s in the beholding of God’s attributes that are changed (2 Cor. 3:18).
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“The true way to ennoble and improve ourselves is by fixing our love on the divine perfections, and we should always have them before us and derive an impression of them upon ourselves” (Pg. 72).
In other words, Scougal is saying that it’s in the beholding of God’s attributes that are changed (2 Cor. 3:18).
Braxton Bragg
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“Oh, that the life of the blessed Jesus might be always in my thoughts and before my eyes so that I may gain a deep sense of the graces that shoneso eminently in him! Let me never cease my endeavors till that new and divine nature prevails in my own soul and Christ is formed within me. Amen” (Pg. 66).
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Braxton Bragg
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“[Jesus] was so entirely swallowed up with a deep sense of the perfections of God that he appeared as nothing in his own eyes (I mean insofar as he was human)” (Pg. 62).
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