The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 6William Oliphant and Sons, 1852 |
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... body . With the Courts of the Established Church in Scotland we have still a controversy . Blind to the staring facts that they now represent but a dwindled minority of the nation , and that the claim on their part to privi- leges which ...
... body . With the Courts of the Established Church in Scotland we have still a controversy . Blind to the staring facts that they now represent but a dwindled minority of the nation , and that the claim on their part to privi- leges which ...
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... body in what we are about to say . We shall be content if our observations prove helpful , in however small a degree , to advance the cause , which we have much at heart , and which others , from whom it may be our misfortune to differ ...
... body in what we are about to say . We shall be content if our observations prove helpful , in however small a degree , to advance the cause , which we have much at heart , and which others , from whom it may be our misfortune to differ ...
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... body , find that their partial triumph is the cause of a general defeat ? These are at once nice and troublesome questions . But they should be put and answered . And because they are troublesome , we may expect them to be answered ...
... body , find that their partial triumph is the cause of a general defeat ? These are at once nice and troublesome questions . But they should be put and answered . And because they are troublesome , we may expect them to be answered ...
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... body of our metropolitan Voluntaries consider that , in promoting the measure , they commit themselves no farther than to the abatement of a grievance which they protest against , but cannot remove . Divided in their views of the extent ...
... body of our metropolitan Voluntaries consider that , in promoting the measure , they commit themselves no farther than to the abatement of a grievance which they protest against , but cannot remove . Divided in their views of the extent ...
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... body . Now , by seeming to yield on some minor matters ; next , by pressing its prescriptive rights where they were not strongly opposed ; again , by the most refined du- plicity , as by adapting itself to popular movements , and ...
... body . Now , by seeming to yield on some minor matters ; next , by pressing its prescriptive rights where they were not strongly opposed ; again , by the most refined du- plicity , as by adapting itself to popular movements , and ...
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Page 340 - And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads : And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Page 351 - As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and
Page 258 - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together : whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Page 488 - All flesh is 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 270 - by liberal things shall he stand. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Page 425 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Cesar : and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 189 - The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces; and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings (or kingdoms)
Page 17 - fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings : but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for
Page 448 - When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning. It will be foul weather to-day : for the sky is red and lowering."— Matthew xvi. 2.*
Page 2 - The grave cannot praise Thee ; death cannot celebrate Thee ; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day.