The Christian Ministry: With an Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Inefficiency, Volume 1Jonathan Leavitt, 1831 - Clergy |
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... the Law , 289 SECT . I. The preaching of the Law - its cha- racter - uses - and obligations , . 289 II . The connexion of the Law with the Gospel , 298 PART I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY . VOL xii CONTENTS .
... the Law , 289 SECT . I. The preaching of the Law - its cha- racter - uses - and obligations , . 289 II . The connexion of the Law with the Gospel , 298 PART I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY . VOL xii CONTENTS .
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... Gospel illustrative of its deeper and more mysterious doctrines . " There are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit . And there * 2 Cor . v . 18 . Psalm lxviii . 18 . ¶ Acts xiii . 2 . § Gal . i . 1 . ** Acts xvi . 6 , 7 . † Matt ...
... Gospel illustrative of its deeper and more mysterious doctrines . " There are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit . And there * 2 Cor . v . 18 . Psalm lxviii . 18 . ¶ Acts xiii . 2 . § Gal . i . 1 . ** Acts xvi . 6 , 7 . † Matt ...
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... Gospel , even so we speak , not as pleasing men , but God , which trieth our hearts . " Let it also connect itself in our mind with most responsible obligations - Let us watch , that we disgrace not the dignity of our calling . Let us ...
... Gospel , even so we speak , not as pleasing men , but God , which trieth our hearts . " Let it also connect itself in our mind with most responsible obligations - Let us watch , that we disgrace not the dignity of our calling . Let us ...
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... gospel - to supply the place of his oral ministry - to reduce them to church order and unity - to confirm them in Christian steadfastness , and to advance them to Christian perfection . The several individuals also who were addressed ...
... gospel - to supply the place of his oral ministry - to reduce them to church order and unity - to confirm them in Christian steadfastness , and to advance them to Christian perfection . The several individuals also who were addressed ...
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... Gospel church on earth . ' † help of a spiritual ministry is Which assertion , ' says he , — * Hooker , book v . 76 , -Mosheim observes to the same purport , that ' the best system of religion must necessarily either dwindle to nothing ...
... Gospel church on earth . ' † help of a spiritual ministry is Which assertion , ' says he , — * Hooker , book v . 76 , -Mosheim observes to the same purport , that ' the best system of religion must necessarily either dwindle to nothing ...
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Page 300 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 230 - Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may. eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Page 5 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 62 - Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books arc to be read only in parts; others to be 174 ON STUDY.
Page 141 - Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Page 138 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 156 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 283 - That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee, fyc.
Page 106 - Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 299 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.