The Sword and the TrowelPassmore & Alabaster., 1866 - Baptists |
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... nature ; the Old Adam is their father , sin is their mother , unbelief their nurse , and self their captain . For number they are legion , and they prowl in bands , each band doing its best to make havoc of every good thing . They break ...
... nature ; the Old Adam is their father , sin is their mother , unbelief their nurse , and self their captain . For number they are legion , and they prowl in bands , each band doing its best to make havoc of every good thing . They break ...
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... nature is not a duty . Faith , we hold , in every- thing made known to us , that is accompanied with sufficient evidence , is our duty . It is the right use of the reason which God has given us , and for the right use of which we are ...
... nature is not a duty . Faith , we hold , in every- thing made known to us , that is accompanied with sufficient evidence , is our duty . It is the right use of the reason which God has given us , and for the right use of which we are ...
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... nature as the branches . If there be duty in the branches , there is duty in the root also . It is the duty of the root to do its part towards the tree , as well as the branches . If faith is not a duty , neither is prayer , for it must ...
... nature as the branches . If there be duty in the branches , there is duty in the root also . It is the duty of the root to do its part towards the tree , as well as the branches . If faith is not a duty , neither is prayer , for it must ...
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... nature and attributes . This , of course , can be only in a figurative sense , or by asso- ciation , not literally . In both cases , the noun " Lord " is put in the adjective form , qualifying " Day " and " Supper " respectively . The ...
... nature and attributes . This , of course , can be only in a figurative sense , or by asso- ciation , not literally . In both cases , the noun " Lord " is put in the adjective form , qualifying " Day " and " Supper " respectively . The ...
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... nature was indissolubly united to his divine , it was utterly impossible that death and the grave could hold him captive in their dominions . Let us go back in imagination to the empty sepulchre . Let us stoop down and look in . There ...
... nature was indissolubly united to his divine , it was utterly impossible that death and the grave could hold him captive in their dominions . Let us go back in imagination to the empty sepulchre . Let us stoop down and look in . There ...
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Page 357 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 558 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 434 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 450 - And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Page 211 - 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 374 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, " In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Page 347 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling : hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee : and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 484 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 521 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart : Be strong, fear not : behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense ; he will come and save you.
Page 352 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.