Life and Remains: Letters, Lectures and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, DundeeRobert Carter, 1848 - 556 pages |
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... grace , before I obeyed my calling to the ministry ? " Few questions are more interesting than this ; and our answer ... grace , while he took the other into the possession of glory . In this brother , who was his senior by eight or nine ...
... grace , before I obeyed my calling to the ministry ? " Few questions are more interesting than this ; and our answer ... grace , while he took the other into the possession of glory . In this brother , who was his senior by eight or nine ...
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... grace of God , that bringeth salvation , appeared . The Holy Spirit carried on his work in the subject of this Memoir , by continuing to deepen in him the conviction of his un- godliness , and the pollution of his whole nature . 14 ...
... grace of God , that bringeth salvation , appeared . The Holy Spirit carried on his work in the subject of this Memoir , by continuing to deepen in him the conviction of his un- godliness , and the pollution of his whole nature . 14 ...
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... Grace of God . But it was the reading of " The Sum of Saving Knowledge , " generally appended to our Confession of Faith , that brought him to a clear understanding of the way of acceptance with God . Those who are acquainted with its ...
... Grace of God . But it was the reading of " The Sum of Saving Knowledge , " generally appended to our Confession of Faith , that brought him to a clear understanding of the way of acceptance with God . Those who are acquainted with its ...
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... grace offers , than to bewail our wants and worthlessness . Two days after , he records , with thankful astonishment , that for the first time in his life he had been blest to awaken a soul . All who find Christ for themselves are ...
... grace offers , than to bewail our wants and worthlessness . Two days after , he records , with thankful astonishment , that for the first time in his life he had been blest to awaken a soul . All who find Christ for themselves are ...
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... grace . In his esteem , " to be in Christ before being in the ministry " was a thing indispensable . He often pointed to those solemn words of Jeremiah ( xxiii . 21. ) " I have not sent these prophets , yet they ran ; I have not spoken ...
... grace . In his esteem , " to be in Christ before being in the ministry " was a thing indispensable . He often pointed to those solemn words of Jeremiah ( xxiii . 21. ) " I have not sent these prophets , yet they ran ; I have not spoken ...
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Page 155 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 246 - I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 406 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Page 233 - O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 165 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 419 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 385 - Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 154 - But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel...
Page 373 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you. Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 155 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD : And he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : For the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.