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... promises and suitably to apply them ; to make solemn application of the truth to sinners ; to comfort and endeavor to strengthen the chris- tian and promote his quickening : These are things profitable to the souls of men and ought not ...
... promises and suitably to apply them ; to make solemn application of the truth to sinners ; to comfort and endeavor to strengthen the chris- tian and promote his quickening : These are things profitable to the souls of men and ought not ...
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... promise ver ified , " they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever . " This ought to animate us to get at the consciences of sinners , and to preach under a sense of the importance of their ...
... promise ver ified , " they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever . " This ought to animate us to get at the consciences of sinners , and to preach under a sense of the importance of their ...
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... promises , " I will make thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness . " However the matter may appear in other re- spects , this is promised as a great blessing , that the church is to enjoy the friendship , succour and aid of ...
... promises , " I will make thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness . " However the matter may appear in other re- spects , this is promised as a great blessing , that the church is to enjoy the friendship , succour and aid of ...
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... promise , glory in our trials.I say God may grant a spirit of prayer , and answer in a different way ; but it is , I believe , generally the case , that when God grants a special spirit of prayer for the recovery of any person , or ...
... promise , glory in our trials.I say God may grant a spirit of prayer , and answer in a different way ; but it is , I believe , generally the case , that when God grants a special spirit of prayer for the recovery of any person , or ...
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... promise . The promises are many . " Ask and ye shall receive : Seek and ye shall find Knock and it shall be opened unto you : Whatso- ever ye ask the father in my name that will I do . " We have also striking examples of the efficacy of ...
... promise . The promises are many . " Ask and ye shall receive : Seek and ye shall find Knock and it shall be opened unto you : Whatso- ever ye ask the father in my name that will I do . " We have also striking examples of the efficacy of ...
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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.