Specimen and Sketch (Duckworth) n. 23

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23. (23) From the faith of the church of today worship has welled up that is of the lips only and not of life; when yet the worship of the lips is acceptable to the Lord and is of effect [only] in proportion to the worship expressed in life, and not the reverse.


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