Biblical Repository and Quarterly ObserverJ. M. Sherwood., 1841 - Religion |
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... influence on the condition and destinies of the world , which the vast extent and the unnumbered myriads of China have never known , and never will know till her broad territory and her countless in- habitants shall be illumined by the ...
... influence on the condition and destinies of the world , which the vast extent and the unnumbered myriads of China have never known , and never will know till her broad territory and her countless in- habitants shall be illumined by the ...
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Nestorian Christians are the small , but venerable remnant of a once great and influential church . They are the oldest of Christian sects ; in their better days they were numerous through all the vast regions from Palestine to China ...
Nestorian Christians are the small , but venerable remnant of a once great and influential church . They are the oldest of Christian sects ; in their better days they were numerous through all the vast regions from Palestine to China ...
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... influence . And as , in the progress of our work , the people of this province shall become yet more enlightened and elevated by the revival of the spirit of Christianity among them , their intercourse will tell yet more powerfully on ...
... influence . And as , in the progress of our work , the people of this province shall become yet more enlightened and elevated by the revival of the spirit of Christianity among them , their intercourse will tell yet more powerfully on ...
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... influential ecclesiastics even - are but very im- perfectly educated . A majority of the priesthood can merely chant their devotions in the ancient Syriac , without knowing the meaning . Some of the bishops even , among 1841. ] 15 The ...
... influential ecclesiastics even - are but very im- perfectly educated . A majority of the priesthood can merely chant their devotions in the ancient Syriac , without knowing the meaning . Some of the bishops even , among 1841. ] 15 The ...
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... influence is in fact far more general . Among the mountaineers , his word is usually law in both temporal and spiritual matters . Among the Nestorians of Ooroomiah his control is much more limited . He never ventures down among them ...
... influence is in fact far more general . Among the mountaineers , his word is usually law in both temporal and spiritual matters . Among the Nestorians of Ooroomiah his control is much more limited . He never ventures down among them ...
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Page 313 - And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest : it is enough, the hour is come ; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, let us go ; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
Page 404 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister ; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant...
Page 313 - Angels ! assist our mighty joys ; Strike all your harps of gold ; But, when you raise your highest notes His love can ne'er be told.
Page 214 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 179 - I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Page 182 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 303 - Then Simon Peter Having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath : the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it...
Page 481 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 468 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 235 - I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.