The American Quarterly Register, Volume 12The Society, 1840 - Clergy |
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... practice , were of the highest order . His legal attainments gave him great weight with the Court , and in his addresses to the jury , he secured their confidence , by the urbanity of his manners , and his known uprightness . This ...
... practice , were of the highest order . His legal attainments gave him great weight with the Court , and in his addresses to the jury , he secured their confidence , by the urbanity of his manners , and his known uprightness . This ...
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... practice . It is believed , however , that their journal of meetings , anterior to 1738 , cannot be found . The exceptions , to this much regretted fact , are a few fragments of Acts passed in 1712 , and 1715. The attainment of these ...
... practice . It is believed , however , that their journal of meetings , anterior to 1738 , cannot be found . The exceptions , to this much regretted fact , are a few fragments of Acts passed in 1712 , and 1715. The attainment of these ...
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... practice , the cove- nant - breaking conduct of numerous professors of love to Christ , and members , consequently , of his visible church , was deeply lamented . This violation of sacred vows was denounced , as the natural fruit and ...
... practice , the cove- nant - breaking conduct of numerous professors of love to Christ , and members , consequently , of his visible church , was deeply lamented . This violation of sacred vows was denounced , as the natural fruit and ...
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practice . Accordingly , the General Association warned the people against being led astray by his influence ; and exhorted them not to encourage him by attending his ministrations . The religious education of children was regarded as ...
practice . Accordingly , the General Association warned the people against being led astray by his influence ; and exhorted them not to encourage him by attending his ministrations . The religious education of children was regarded as ...
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... practice . - An annual return of communicants and of additions to the churches , was invited . - The Trustees were desired to ask , of the civil power , permission to take up congregational contributions in support of their Missionary ...
... practice . - An annual return of communicants and of additions to the churches , was invited . - The Trustees were desired to ask , of the civil power , permission to take up congregational contributions in support of their Missionary ...
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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.