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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... sure the believers ' promises belong to you ? Are you an assured believer ? If so , rejoice in your heirship ; and yet rejoice with trembling ; for that is the very character of God's heirs . But are you unassured - nay , wholly ...
... sure the believers ' promises belong to you ? Are you an assured believer ? If so , rejoice in your heirship ; and yet rejoice with trembling ; for that is the very character of God's heirs . But are you unassured - nay , wholly ...
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... sure and solid confidence of his soul . In refer- ence to that same illness , he seems to have penned the following lines , November 24th : - He tenderly binds up the broken in heart , The soul bowed down he will raise ; For mourning ...
... sure and solid confidence of his soul . In refer- ence to that same illness , he seems to have penned the following lines , November 24th : - He tenderly binds up the broken in heart , The soul bowed down he will raise ; For mourning ...
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... sure to repay the toil . Along with this author , the Letters of Samuel Rutherford were often in his hand . Books of general knowledge he occasionally perused ; but now it was done with the steady purpose of finding in them some ...
... sure to repay the toil . Along with this author , the Letters of Samuel Rutherford were often in his hand . Books of general knowledge he occasionally perused ; but now it was done with the steady purpose of finding in them some ...
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... sure principle , he felt him- self in no way restrained from using , for every day's necessities , all parts of the Old Testament as much as the New . His manner was first to ascertain the primary sense and application , and so proceed ...
... sure principle , he felt him- self in no way restrained from using , for every day's necessities , all parts of the Old Testament as much as the New . His manner was first to ascertain the primary sense and application , and so proceed ...
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... sure that you are sent with me . You know , dear A. , I could not labor in this cause , nor enjoy it , if you were not to be with me in it . Would you be ready to give your Jewish lecture on the evening of Sabbath week ? And now , pray ...
... sure that you are sent with me . You know , dear A. , I could not labor in this cause , nor enjoy it , if you were not to be with me in it . Would you be ready to give your Jewish lecture on the evening of Sabbath week ? And now , pray ...
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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.