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... True , Spiritual Peace ...... 2. Ecclesiastical Historians : Dr. Killen's History of the Early Church ............ 77 3. Queens of Prussia : Atkinson's Memoirs of 94 4. Bateman's Life of the Bishop of Calcutta 109 5. The Church in ...
... True , Spiritual Peace ...... 2. Ecclesiastical Historians : Dr. Killen's History of the Early Church ............ 77 3. Queens of Prussia : Atkinson's Memoirs of 94 4. Bateman's Life of the Bishop of Calcutta 109 5. The Church in ...
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... true believer , you have already taken them , one and all , to the Saviour of sinners . By an act of faith you have plunged into that fountain which has been opened for sin and for unclean- ness . You have gone with your leprosy to the ...
... true believer , you have already taken them , one and all , to the Saviour of sinners . By an act of faith you have plunged into that fountain which has been opened for sin and for unclean- ness . You have gone with your leprosy to the ...
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... true as applied to the opposite school , who eliminate sound doctrinal teaching from their discourses and writings , and yet invest them with a dim and hazy spiritualism not unfrequently mistaken for spirituality , by which we mean the ...
... true as applied to the opposite school , who eliminate sound doctrinal teaching from their discourses and writings , and yet invest them with a dim and hazy spiritualism not unfrequently mistaken for spirituality , by which we mean the ...
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... true to nature . The originals from which the por- traits of Adam Bede and Dinah Morris are drawn , have doubtless existed , and some such characters may now exist . In the case of the poor Methodist class - leader , Dinah , we may hope ...
... true to nature . The originals from which the por- traits of Adam Bede and Dinah Morris are drawn , have doubtless existed , and some such characters may now exist . In the case of the poor Methodist class - leader , Dinah , we may hope ...
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... true to nature , nor is it of salutary tendency . The cautionary part of the book - its pictures of evil and of the results of that evil - are good , because they are true . But the model characters are drawn from the imagination ; and ...
... true to nature , nor is it of salutary tendency . The cautionary part of the book - its pictures of evil and of the results of that evil - are good , because they are true . But the model characters are drawn from the imagination ; and ...
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Page 795 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 843 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 565 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 218 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 745 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 409 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 379 - Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself...
Page 158 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Page 802 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Page 225 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.