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I speak not now of the counterfeit Puritanism which expressed itself in loud and eccentric externalisms, and in much-flaunted and self-advertised piety and self-denial.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

The spirit of the times, the wild fanaticism of the people, and their own bias, tended alike to make them set value only on ceremonies and worthless externalisms, to the utter neglect of the spirit of the sacred writings.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

This Psalmist, nourished amidst the externalisms of an elaborate ceremonial, and compelled, by the stage of revelation at which he stood, to localise worship in an external Temple, in a fashion that we need not do, had yet attained to the conviction that, in the desert or in the

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

Spirit is limited by no human conditions or laws, but dispenses His gifts in superb disregard of conventionalities and externalisms.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

For though, as I have said, externalisms and ritualisms filled a place then, that it is an anachronism and a retrogression that they should be supposed to fill now, still beneath all these there lay this one ancient, permanent relation, the relation of trust.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

Not by externalisms of any kind, not by the clear dry light of the understanding, but by the outgoing of the heart's confidence to God, do we come within the clasp of His arms and become recipients of His grace.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

It blows 'where it listeth,' sovereignly indifferent to the expectations and limitations and the externalisms, even of organised

Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

He had a truer insight into what active men needed for vigorous working days, and what devout men needed for healthy religion, than many moderns who smile at his eagerness about 'mere externalisms.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868

Therefore we can extend the principle here to all externalisms of worship, in all forms, in all churches, and say that in comparison with the essentials of an inward Christianity they are nothing and they do nothing.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

We can see gleaming through all their words, though only gleaming through them, the same truth which Jesus Christ couched in the immortal phrase -- the charter of the Church's emancipation from all externalisms -- 'neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, shall men worship the Father.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868