The Christian Advocate, Volume 6A. Finley, 1828 - Presbyterianism |
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... means to obtain them . I there fore resolve , that if I approach the dark valley in the full possession of my intellectual powers , I will en .. deavour to keep my thoughts as much as possible fixed and resting on my precious Saviour ...
... means to obtain them . I there fore resolve , that if I approach the dark valley in the full possession of my intellectual powers , I will en .. deavour to keep my thoughts as much as possible fixed and resting on my precious Saviour ...
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... means the Speech , or Word of God . The doctrine taught by us is so called , chiefly because it both treats of God , and is to be learned from the revelation which God has given us . into ( 1. ) the Fabulous , or that of the Poets ; ( 2 ...
... means the Speech , or Word of God . The doctrine taught by us is so called , chiefly because it both treats of God , and is to be learned from the revelation which God has given us . into ( 1. ) the Fabulous , or that of the Poets ; ( 2 ...
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... means , to himself , the blessed source of ail good . It may teach you to wait on the Lord , and not faint , but hope , and quietly wait for his salvation . Thirdly : You may have met with Christ . Jacob found God in Bethel , yet he ...
... means , to himself , the blessed source of ail good . It may teach you to wait on the Lord , and not faint , but hope , and quietly wait for his salvation . Thirdly : You may have met with Christ . Jacob found God in Bethel , yet he ...
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... means during his last college year . It was during these times of gra- cious refreshing , that he acquired the essential principles of his fu- ture eminence as a Christian mi nister ; and no circumstances could have been more favourable ...
... means during his last college year . It was during these times of gra- cious refreshing , that he acquired the essential principles of his fu- ture eminence as a Christian mi nister ; and no circumstances could have been more favourable ...
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... means which he employed , to reap the fruits of salvation from his know- ledge in the mystery of Christ . He greatly delighted and abounded in the more free and familiar exercises of the evening lecture , the Bible class , and the ...
... means which he employed , to reap the fruits of salvation from his know- ledge in the mystery of Christ . He greatly delighted and abounded in the more free and familiar exercises of the evening lecture , the Bible class , and the ...
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Page 235 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 102 - move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 47 - says—"They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would NO DOUBT have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." If it be objected to this doctrine, that
Page 376 - Let us, then, adopt as our own the words of that most eminent servant of God, Moses, when praying for the display of the Divine power and glory to his people Israel ;—' Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we
Page 117 - in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember that, by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
Page 49 - Rom. ii. 14, 15—"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing, or else excusing one
Page 295 - he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.' But afterwards, when the apostle James, the brother of John, was put to death by Herod, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, we find
Page 100 - was Christ: but with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness." From which he undertook to prove that a person might be united to the Saviour and partake of his grace, and yet after this, finally fall away.
Page 161 - To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? eternity,
Page 217 - with his church, even to the end of the world, and that 'the abundant grace might, through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God." For ourselves, that we may be enabled to render up our account with joy, and say, if possible, with the great Shepherd of souls