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... promise of blessing annexed to ministerial service ; and the sense of that specialty ought not to be effaced from the minds of our flocks , by the permitted intrusion of laymen , however pious and zealous , into that which belongs to ...
... promise of blessing annexed to ministerial service ; and the sense of that specialty ought not to be effaced from the minds of our flocks , by the permitted intrusion of laymen , however pious and zealous , into that which belongs to ...
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... promises of the Gospel , were far more characteristic of him who came in the office of the beneficent prophet of the Church , and was waited for as the consolation of Israel . * * * It will also appear that the tenderness of Christ was ...
... promises of the Gospel , were far more characteristic of him who came in the office of the beneficent prophet of the Church , and was waited for as the consolation of Israel . * * * It will also appear that the tenderness of Christ was ...
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... promises his blessing . He warned his disciples that they should not despise one of the little . ones , for every one of them , however low and neglected among men in general , enjoyed special tokens of the divine favour . He did not ...
... promises his blessing . He warned his disciples that they should not despise one of the little . ones , for every one of them , however low and neglected among men in general , enjoyed special tokens of the divine favour . He did not ...
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... promised to pray for strength to keep her present resolutions of amendment , and to labour hard to redeem her clothing , that she might be able to go to church again . She wept much , and appeared greatly softened ; but I much fear for ...
... promised to pray for strength to keep her present resolutions of amendment , and to labour hard to redeem her clothing , that she might be able to go to church again . She wept much , and appeared greatly softened ; but I much fear for ...
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... promised to bring her some of the Society's papers . She then told me she had been greatly pleased with viewing the eclipse on Sunday ; that it had brought strongly to her mind a passage of Scripture , where the request was made , Lord ...
... promised to bring her some of the Society's papers . She then told me she had been greatly pleased with viewing the eclipse on Sunday ; that it had brought strongly to her mind a passage of Scripture , where the request was made , Lord ...
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Page 13 - So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you ? Ye call Me, Master, and Lord ; and ye say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 45 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 132 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 234 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 14 - Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost Thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Page 94 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 46 - just live by faith;" and the loss of this life can only be by unbelief: so the " life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us,
Page 94 - The LORD liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ; And let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Page 189 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.