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Title: Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Bible Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher: Battle Creek, MI Chicago, IL : Review and Herald Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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who through the eternal Spirit offeredhimself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to servethe living God ? Heb. 9:14. 3. When once purged by the blood of Christ, in what condition is the conscience of an individual ? Because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience ofsins. Heb. 10 : 2. 4. In his defense before a certain council, how did Paul say he had constantly lived ? Men and brethren, T have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.Acts 23 : 1. 5. When one lives as the apostle declared he had, — in all goodCon- science,— in what condition will his conscience be? * And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience voidof offense towardGod, and toward men. Acts 24 : 16. Note. —Taking the definition of conscience into consideration, it may be readilyseen that it is not enough to have simply a conscience ; for all consciences arenot good. The heathen have consciences which lead them, in some cases, to US?)
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1488) A CHANGE OF CONSCIENCE. K Q>00\) COHSCA^UCAi. 480 sacrifice their children to appease the wrath of their gods. A notable case ofa changed conscience, is that recorded in Acts 19 : 18-20, when many whohad previously believed false doctrines, and who had used curious arts,brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and theycounted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.Theirs was a change from a bad conscience to a good one, though at quite afinancial loss. To be a Christian, then, one must have a. good conscience, onewhich has been purged from corrupt things by an application of the blood ofChrist. 6. What does the apostle say the act of baptism is to the candidate? The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the put-ting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towardGod), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I Peter 3 : 21. Note.—Baptism saves one by the resurrection of Jesus Chris

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