A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M.: Of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire ; and Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Late Duke of Kent |
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... divine grace , as the only genuine source of inward and external holiness ; what must be their state , who , with greater deficiencies , experience no conflict of the mind , no secret misgivings of the con- science ? If , in his ardent ...
... divine grace , as the only genuine source of inward and external holiness ; what must be their state , who , with greater deficiencies , experience no conflict of the mind , no secret misgivings of the con- science ? If , in his ardent ...
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... divine love so conspicuous in the whole of its stupendous plan -- the beauty , order , and symmetry of its several ... grace in the heart , and its holiness in the life of the preacher . Such was the case in the instance of Mr. Richmond ...
... divine love so conspicuous in the whole of its stupendous plan -- the beauty , order , and symmetry of its several ... grace in the heart , and its holiness in the life of the preacher . Such was the case in the instance of Mr. Richmond ...
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... divine grace renews the heart of the fallen sinner , Paradise is regained , and much of its beauty restored to the soul . As this prospect is compounded of hill and dale , land and sea , woods and plains , all sweetly blended together ...
... divine grace renews the heart of the fallen sinner , Paradise is regained , and much of its beauty restored to the soul . As this prospect is compounded of hill and dale , land and sea , woods and plains , all sweetly blended together ...
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... divine truth was diffused through his sermons . The Law and the Gospel were ... grace and power of the Holy Spirit , can fix conviction on the mind , rouse ... Divine truth , from his lips , was not a cold , speculative statement ; but ...
... divine truth was diffused through his sermons . The Law and the Gospel were ... grace and power of the Holy Spirit , can fix conviction on the mind , rouse ... Divine truth , from his lips , was not a cold , speculative statement ; but ...
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... divine truth any undue preponderance over another . Each truth seemed to be ... divine in this mode of proceeding . The highest Calvinist , in former days , took ... grace of the Gos- pel ; and insisted as strenuously on the necessity and ...
... divine truth any undue preponderance over another . Each truth seemed to be ... divine in this mode of proceeding . The highest Calvinist , in former days , took ... grace of the Gos- pel ; and insisted as strenuously on the necessity and ...
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Page 148 - How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 57 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a li vely faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 251 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 279 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 142 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 341 - That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Page 349 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 67 - Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 251 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Page 197 - are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.