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... things for ourselves ; we have examples of them before our eyes . We have but to overlook the land , and inspect the peo- ple who have been under the same religious instruction for some ten , twenty , or forty years 34 THE POWER OF THE ...
... things for ourselves ; we have examples of them before our eyes . We have but to overlook the land , and inspect the peo- ple who have been under the same religious instruction for some ten , twenty , or forty years 34 THE POWER OF THE ...
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... things , tells also , that while the Protestant prisoners were so numerous that it was impossible to put them all to ... thing had happened to us , " that men there are who are never more eloquent than when speaking and writing against ...
... things , tells also , that while the Protestant prisoners were so numerous that it was impossible to put them all to ... thing had happened to us , " that men there are who are never more eloquent than when speaking and writing against ...
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... thing seems , indeed , to have been authoritatively taught , and it was the sum and substance of the teaching . Boldly and without shame was the dogma enforced , that ignorance is the mother of devotion ; and it sunk into the minds of ...
... thing seems , indeed , to have been authoritatively taught , and it was the sum and substance of the teaching . Boldly and without shame was the dogma enforced , that ignorance is the mother of devotion ; and it sunk into the minds of ...
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... things ; things which it does not so directly aim at , but which belong to it as its natural allies , which are incidental to it , and follow in its train of influences and blessings . The mere fact that it has a ready and almost ...
... things ; things which it does not so directly aim at , but which belong to it as its natural allies , which are incidental to it , and follow in its train of influences and blessings . The mere fact that it has a ready and almost ...
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... things real- ized among Protestants , and that the countries of England or Scotland , or the United States , were placed under the ban of some govern- mental interdict , and their ministers banished , and their churches closed . The ...
... things real- ized among Protestants , and that the countries of England or Scotland , or the United States , were placed under the ban of some govern- mental interdict , and their ministers banished , and their churches closed . The ...
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Page 361 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 291 - And I was with you in weakness, and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 410 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 121 - She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 167 - But rise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.
Page 408 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 371 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 182 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 86 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined.
Page 308 - ... bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.