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... precepts of Christianity retain but little hold upon his heart . With him the interests of time are every thing — the dearer interests of futurity are seldom permitted to arrest his attention . If the public exhortation of the clergyman ...
... precepts of Christianity retain but little hold upon his heart . With him the interests of time are every thing — the dearer interests of futurity are seldom permitted to arrest his attention . If the public exhortation of the clergyman ...
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... precept upon precept , and example upon example , to prove the asser- tion with which I commenced this letter , that the Gospel , with all its various consolations , though delivered to all of every age , and -- rank , and clime , were ...
... precept upon precept , and example upon example , to prove the asser- tion with which I commenced this letter , that the Gospel , with all its various consolations , though delivered to all of every age , and -- rank , and clime , were ...
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... precepts , are now so industriously and effectually inculcated upon the poor as in those days of infant Christianity . It were presumption , indeed , in the servant thus to measure the merits of his master by his own -but by laying down ...
... precepts , are now so industriously and effectually inculcated upon the poor as in those days of infant Christianity . It were presumption , indeed , in the servant thus to measure the merits of his master by his own -but by laying down ...
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... precept and practice , that you , to whom their best and dearest interests are intrusted , have those interests deeply rooted at your heart . You E will assure them that , without their heartiest concurrence , CLERICAL PORTRAIT . 49.
... precept and practice , that you , to whom their best and dearest interests are intrusted , have those interests deeply rooted at your heart . You E will assure them that , without their heartiest concurrence , CLERICAL PORTRAIT . 49.
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... precepts also which more immediately affect the temptations to which poverty is exposed - the privations and diffi- culties with which a lowlier station has fre- quently to struggle . Among these you will remind them of the exhortations ...
... precepts also which more immediately affect the temptations to which poverty is exposed - the privations and diffi- culties with which a lowlier station has fre- quently to struggle . Among these you will remind them of the exhortations ...
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Page 110 - And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Page 122 - And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more : and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus : and passing through, he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.
Page 95 - God spoke the world into being; and especially he formed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into him the breath of life, so that he became a living soul.
Page 46 - ... washed His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 103 - But the most complete scriptural illustration of this doctrine which can be given, is from that celebrated passage where the apostle tells his converts to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling, because it is God that worketh in them both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Page 35 - God will judge the world in righteousness, and administer true judgment unto his people. Some, indeed, are so bold as to deny it, whilst they are engaged in the pursuit of the lust of the eye and the pride of life; but follow them to their death-beds — ask them, when their souls are ready to launch into eternity, what...
Page 183 - Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the Happiness upright in heart." —PSALMS 97:11. "Her (wisdom's) ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Page 45 - Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 117 - Then Philip began at the same Scripture and preached unto him Jesus.