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Aberdeen acquiescence of parties adopted Aged and Infirm Alexander amount appointed Assembly approve Assembly re-appoint Auchterarder believed blessing brethren called charge Christ Christian Church Extension Church of Scotland Claim of Right College congregation connection contributed Convener Court Deacons Disruption district Dr Adam Dr Begg Dr Buchanan Dr RAINY Dr WILSON Dundee Dunoon duty Edinburgh elder endowment equal dividend Erastianism Established Church evangelistic Free Church Gaelic give Glasgow gospel grace grant Highlands Highlands and Islands holiness honour hope House increase Infirm Ministers interest J. H. Wilson James John labour Lochcarron Lord manse matter meeting ministry missionary motion overture Patronage Patronage Act petition prayer preaching Presbyterian Church Presbytery present principle Professor proposed question reference regard Sabbath Sabbath-school sanction scheme schools Sir HENRY MONCREIFF spiritual independence Sustentation Fund Sustentation Fund Committee Synod teachers things thought tion Voluntaryism William young
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Page 52 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 6 - Let not conscience make you linger, Nor of fitness fondly dream ; All the fitness he requireth, Is to feel your need of him ; This he gives you ; 'Tis the Spirit's rising beam.
Page 7 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 8 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 271 - Redeemer's throne, Where only Christ is heard to speak. Where Jesus reigns alone ; 3 A humble, lowly, contrite heart, Believing, true, and clean, Which neither life nor death can part From Him that dwells within ; 4 A heart in every thought renewed, And full of love divine, Perfect and right and pure and good, A copy, Lord, of Thine...
Page 64 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Page 106 - ... that it shall be free to the members of this Church, or their successors, at any time hereafter, when there shall be a prospect of obtaining justice, to claim the restitution of all such civil rights and" privileges, and temporal benefits and endowments, as for the present they may be compelled to yield up...
Page 272 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 52 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Page 13 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.