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Page 182 - Upon the Sundays and other Holy-days, (if there be no Communion?) shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion, until the end of the general Prayer, [For the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth,] together with one or more of these Collects last before rehearsed, concluding with the Blessing.
Page 56 - 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 56 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Page 118 - Hebrews which answers to our first of April : and, to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance, it was thought proper, whoever forgot so remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was...
Page 272 - ... 4. That in such necessary changes, the style of the language employed in the existing Version be closely followed. '•'5. That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the co-operation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong.
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Page 54 - According to tradition, these thousand years of the reign of Christ and the saints, will be the seventh Millenary of the world: for as God created the world in six days, and rested on the seventh...
Page 240 - Ashler, hewn or squared stone used in building, as distinguished from that which is unhewn, or rough as it comes from the quarry : it is called by different names at the present day, according to the way in which it is worked, and is used for the facings of walls.
Page 36 - Ii profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the theology of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture; the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering, as he thus does, his poems from the merely subjective cast of those, beautiful as they are, of St.
Page 166 - ... president of a student organization, the Royal Medical Society, and assisted in organizing a natural history society. Returning to the United States in 1787, he practiced in Philadelphia. In 1789 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the medical school of the College of Philadelphia, and after that institution and the University of the State of Pennsylvania were united as the University of Pennsylvania in 1791, he became adjunct professor of anatomy, surgery, and midwifery at the combined...