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James Gray. dation for the structure of practical duties , which I mean to attempt erecting . Let us , therefore , examine a little into its meaning , and moral bearings . The Pharisees , with the Sadducees , we are told , came to our ...
James Gray. dation for the structure of practical duties , which I mean to attempt erecting . Let us , therefore , examine a little into its meaning , and moral bearings . The Pharisees , with the Sadducees , we are told , came to our ...
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... attempt to resist the spirit of the re- formation , was made by the ecclesiastical authority . This was a matter of course ; and could the civil powers have been induced to co - operate heartily with the ecclesiastical , God only knows ...
... attempt to resist the spirit of the re- formation , was made by the ecclesiastical authority . This was a matter of course ; and could the civil powers have been induced to co - operate heartily with the ecclesiastical , God only knows ...
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... attempting counteraction . And now if those liberal minded , open handed christians , who serve God by diffusing his word without comment among others ; were only to be as kind to themselves as they are to their neighbours , and to ...
... attempting counteraction . And now if those liberal minded , open handed christians , who serve God by diffusing his word without comment among others ; were only to be as kind to themselves as they are to their neighbours , and to ...
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... attempt to promote intellectual cul- ture among the lower ranks of society ; and our joy is much augmented when we find that the chosen in- strument of cultivation is God's Bible ; a book which , while it cultivates the intellect ...
... attempt to promote intellectual cul- ture among the lower ranks of society ; and our joy is much augmented when we find that the chosen in- strument of cultivation is God's Bible ; a book which , while it cultivates the intellect ...
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... attempt to exam- ine into the character of our country , we resemble a man who goes close up to a picture , in order to judge of its excellence ; but from his position , he sees nothing but rough and rude daubings of different colours ...
... attempt to exam- ine into the character of our country , we resemble a man who goes close up to a picture , in order to judge of its excellence ; but from his position , he sees nothing but rough and rude daubings of different colours ...
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Page 47 - And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Page 70 - I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people : Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them : and I will make of thee a great
Page 93 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 72 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 62 - I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall ? God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness...
Page 10 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather : for the sky is red.
Page 72 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers...
Page 71 - And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them ? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Page 12 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Page 42 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.