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... received the royal stamp . With regard to those parts of his book , which have * Critics - If you see ignorance amongst men , do you en- deavour to remove it ? If weakness , do you pity and assist it ? If vice , do you labour to reform ...
... received the royal stamp . With regard to those parts of his book , which have * Critics - If you see ignorance amongst men , do you en- deavour to remove it ? If weakness , do you pity and assist it ? If vice , do you labour to reform ...
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... received from the God of nature and providence ; and while I felt myself warranted from the best authority , to hope for his mercy for the numerous infirmities of my constitution , and those imperfections of my life , which have ...
... received from the God of nature and providence ; and while I felt myself warranted from the best authority , to hope for his mercy for the numerous infirmities of my constitution , and those imperfections of my life , which have ...
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... received for improvement , have been punished with that barren- ness which is aptly described , by causing them to cease from feeding the flock , " and which is rendered additionally terrible by a threat of future retribution , in the ...
... received for improvement , have been punished with that barren- ness which is aptly described , by causing them to cease from feeding the flock , " and which is rendered additionally terrible by a threat of future retribution , in the ...
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... received with open arms its healing streams , which flowed from province to province in majestic simplicity , render- ing wholesome and fertile every spot through which it passed - in Pennsylvania it reposed as in its own proper bed ...
... received with open arms its healing streams , which flowed from province to province in majestic simplicity , render- ing wholesome and fertile every spot through which it passed - in Pennsylvania it reposed as in its own proper bed ...
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... received for this sacrifice , in the public opinion - After what has passed , to speak of warning the unruly , comforting the feeble- minded , or restoring peace to the aflicted , would be su- perfluous they would take up too much of ...
... received for this sacrifice , in the public opinion - After what has passed , to speak of warning the unruly , comforting the feeble- minded , or restoring peace to the aflicted , would be su- perfluous they would take up too much of ...
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Page 218 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 220 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 394 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 438 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page 394 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 30 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 36 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 216 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so. Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 217 - He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
Page 184 - There is only one condition previously required of those who desire admission into these societies, "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved from their sins.