The American Quarterly Register, Volume 12The Society, 1840 - Clergy |
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... Christ , as the only foundation of his hopes , he was received into the Con- gregational church , then the only one existing in Northampton , and continued an exemplary member of it until the time of his death . His theological ...
... Christ , as the only foundation of his hopes , he was received into the Con- gregational church , then the only one existing in Northampton , and continued an exemplary member of it until the time of his death . His theological ...
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... Christ . Early in life he made a solemn profession of our holy religion , and publicly attached himself to the cause ... Christ's kingdom . He stood as a pillar in this temple of the Lord . By his pacific and prudent counsels , in ...
... Christ . Early in life he made a solemn profession of our holy religion , and publicly attached himself to the cause ... Christ's kingdom . He stood as a pillar in this temple of the Lord . By his pacific and prudent counsels , in ...
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... Christ , and members , consequently , of his visible church , was deeply lamented . This violation of sacred vows was denounced , as the natural fruit and infallible evidence of an unsafe faith . The prevalence of something which , in ...
... Christ , and members , consequently , of his visible church , was deeply lamented . This violation of sacred vows was denounced , as the natural fruit and infallible evidence of an unsafe faith . The prevalence of something which , in ...
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... Christ and salvation , the gloomy and agitating anticipations seemed only to produce hardness of heart , and to give an impudent and threatening boldness to impiety . For such reasons , especially , was the last Thursday of August ...
... Christ and salvation , the gloomy and agitating anticipations seemed only to produce hardness of heart , and to give an impudent and threatening boldness to impiety . For such reasons , especially , was the last Thursday of August ...
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... Christ . - A committee was raised to prepare an index of the records , which express the doings of the General Association . - Five hundred copies of the rules were ordered to be printed . - Strong disapprobation was expressed , of ...
... Christ . - A committee was raised to prepare an index of the records , which express the doings of the General Association . - Five hundred copies of the rules were ordered to be printed . - Strong disapprobation was expressed , of ...
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Page 340 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 193 - But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man : for he knew what was in man.
Page 157 - 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 157 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Page 187 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 314 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Page 333 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 416 - No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Page 108 - Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
Page 415 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.