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... friends mean to go on that subject . I am very suspicious and hesitating about advancing too far in these matters . We have already gone a long way together in purely spiritual devotion , in happy union of heart . We can pray - we can ...
... friends mean to go on that subject . I am very suspicious and hesitating about advancing too far in these matters . We have already gone a long way together in purely spiritual devotion , in happy union of heart . We can pray - we can ...
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... friends . " Whether the latter effect may follow or not , we think Dr. Cox may rest assured , the former part of his prophecy cannot fail of its accomplishment , both among friends and foes . It having been thus agreed , that the future ...
... friends . " Whether the latter effect may follow or not , we think Dr. Cox may rest assured , the former part of his prophecy cannot fail of its accomplishment , both among friends and foes . It having been thus agreed , that the future ...
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... friends in the Conference , who asked an explanation of so strik- ing and apparently so studied an insult - we can heartily forgive the in- sult , if such it was ; and we can very easily find a satisfactory expla- nation of the mystery ...
... friends in the Conference , who asked an explanation of so strik- ing and apparently so studied an insult - we can heartily forgive the in- sult , if such it was ; and we can very easily find a satisfactory expla- nation of the mystery ...
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... friends and foes : " Where is your Church's Constitution ? " - they have at length been shamed to put forth this paltry substitute of a Catechism ; and in order to combine as usual a desperate effort at proselytism with every mea- sure ...
... friends and foes : " Where is your Church's Constitution ? " - they have at length been shamed to put forth this paltry substitute of a Catechism ; and in order to combine as usual a desperate effort at proselytism with every mea- sure ...
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... friends , this , the last of their schemes within the Church , was defeated . Apprehensive of their numerical weakness , and dreading the effects of an adverse vote , they gave up all contest for the chair - they had not even the ...
... friends , this , the last of their schemes within the Church , was defeated . Apprehensive of their numerical weakness , and dreading the effects of an adverse vote , they gave up all contest for the chair - they had not even the ...
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Page 245 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when, ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 141 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 402 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 115 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 157 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 441 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...
Page 192 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 245 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 244 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Page 246 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.