The Power of the Pulpit, Or, Thoughts Addressed to Christian Ministers and Those who Hear Them |
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... holy men , to light succeeding generations on their way to eternity . As soon as men were sufficiently multiplied to form religious assemblies , there were ac- credited religious teachers . Such was " Enoch , the seventh from Adam ...
... holy men , to light succeeding generations on their way to eternity . As soon as men were sufficiently multiplied to form religious assemblies , there were ac- credited religious teachers . Such was " Enoch , the seventh from Adam ...
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... are to be traced up to those schools of the prophets where Samuel and Elijah taught , and to those holy men who caught their falling mantle . CHAPTER II . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . THESE rites 22 THE POWER OF THE PULPIT .
... are to be traced up to those schools of the prophets where Samuel and Elijah taught , and to those holy men who caught their falling mantle . CHAPTER II . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . THESE rites 22 THE POWER OF THE PULPIT .
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... holy men stood ; wondrous words which they spake ; wondrous effects which they produced ; and which we , at the distance of eighteen centu- ries , look back upon , when the " rod of God's strength " first went forth out of Zion . Even a ...
... holy men stood ; wondrous words which they spake ; wondrous effects which they produced ; and which we , at the distance of eighteen centu- ries , look back upon , when the " rod of God's strength " first went forth out of Zion . Even a ...
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... Holy One , and gave an impulse to the pulpit which it * The dissenting ministers of England ever have been a noble class of men . During a discussion in Parliament , some time , if I mistake not , between the years 1775 and 1780 , upon ...
... Holy One , and gave an impulse to the pulpit which it * The dissenting ministers of England ever have been a noble class of men . During a discussion in Parliament , some time , if I mistake not , between the years 1775 and 1780 , upon ...
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... holy work of pillage , plunder , and blood . Proud and haughty Eng- land , with all her excellencies , is just the im- age of her arrogant Prelacy . Scotland too , what is she , what has she been , if not the re- flection of her noble ...
... holy work of pillage , plunder , and blood . Proud and haughty Eng- land , with all her excellencies , is just the im- age of her arrogant Prelacy . Scotland too , what is she , what has she been , if not the re- flection of her noble ...
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Page 325 - 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 123 - 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 169 - 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 88 - 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 342 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the 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.
Page 185 - 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. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Page 418 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 441 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Page 229 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation : and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Page 281 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.