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... prayer to God ,. that it may please him to make it instrumental in promoting that spiritual welfare of mankind , to which the life of the es teemed Author was sincerely and ardently de voted . Middlebury , Nov. 27 , 1805 . Table of ...
... prayer to God ,. that it may please him to make it instrumental in promoting that spiritual welfare of mankind , to which the life of the es teemed Author was sincerely and ardently de voted . Middlebury , Nov. 27 , 1805 . Table of ...
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... prayer he was solemn , devotional and fervent . He was always able to adapt himself to particular occa- sions with peculiar pertinency . His words were weighty and accompanied with an air of sincerity . His manner was tender ...
... prayer he was solemn , devotional and fervent . He was always able to adapt himself to particular occa- sions with peculiar pertinency . His words were weighty and accompanied with an air of sincerity . His manner was tender ...
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... prayers by giv- . ing him more comfortable views , during the latter part of his life , and it was with heart - felt . pleasure that he beheld , before his death , a reviv- . al of religion in many of the towns . , Whether we view him ...
... prayers by giv- . ing him more comfortable views , during the latter part of his life , and it was with heart - felt . pleasure that he beheld , before his death , a reviv- . al of religion in many of the towns . , Whether we view him ...
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... Prayer , reading , meditation and attending religious institutions , will be matters of serious . importance . When men are apprehensive that they are drawing near the eternal world , they com- monly have very different views of many ...
... Prayer , reading , meditation and attending religious institutions , will be matters of serious . importance . When men are apprehensive that they are drawing near the eternal world , they com- monly have very different views of many ...
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... . They may expect contempt from many , but God will honor them in glory . We see that ministers need to be much in prayer and watchfulness ; to study and deyote themselves to the work . I shall add but a few words more addressed to 46.
... . They may expect contempt from many , but God will honor them in glory . We see that ministers need to be much in prayer and watchfulness ; to study and deyote themselves to the work . I shall add but a few words more addressed to 46.
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Page 129 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 120 - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 232 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 216 - For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Page 20 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page iii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 192 - Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. • And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 25 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 191 - And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
Page 281 - The path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.