A Sermon, Delivered in Boston, Sept. 16, 1813: Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at Their Fourth Annual Meeting |
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... death . But the Lord , even Jesus , had met him in the way , and had spoken to him with a voice of power and majes ty , which he could no longer resist . A glorious light from heaven shone round about him , the emblem of a more glorious ...
... death . But the Lord , even Jesus , had met him in the way , and had spoken to him with a voice of power and majes ty , which he could no longer resist . A glorious light from heaven shone round about him , the emblem of a more glorious ...
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... death ; and he declares the object of his minis- try to be " to turn many from darkness to light , and from the power of Satan unto God . " Here was the spring of his zeal in preaching the gospel , in regions where " Christ was not ...
... death ; and he declares the object of his minis- try to be " to turn many from darkness to light , and from the power of Satan unto God . " Here was the spring of his zeal in preaching the gospel , in regions where " Christ was not ...
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... death , strongly marked as they were by sentiments of the most exalted piety , will excite more Christian feeling , and be productive of more devout and ardent prayer for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom , than the lives and deaths ...
... death , strongly marked as they were by sentiments of the most exalted piety , will excite more Christian feeling , and be productive of more devout and ardent prayer for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom , than the lives and deaths ...
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... death , and made heir of an inconceivable , and eternal weight of glory ! Be it some Africanbe it some Hindoo - be it some tarny savage from the wilderness - the joy will be equal it is a soul saved from death , through your in ...
... death , and made heir of an inconceivable , and eternal weight of glory ! Be it some Africanbe it some Hindoo - be it some tarny savage from the wilderness - the joy will be equal it is a soul saved from death , through your in ...
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... heavenly bodies . Mortals , who had acquired a powerful influence over the affections or fears of their contemporaries , were supposed not only to retain their existence after death , but to occupy a kind of middle state 7.
... heavenly bodies . Mortals , who had acquired a powerful influence over the affections or fears of their contemporaries , were supposed not only to retain their existence after death , but to occupy a kind of middle state 7.
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Page 7 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...
Page 9 - Brethren my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Page 17 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 33 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 70 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 4 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Page 19 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 29 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 1 - So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.