The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death, and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams |
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... eternal condemnation , shall become one universal temple to the living God , in which the children of men shall learn the anthems of the blessed above , and be made meet to unite with the spirits of the redeemed , from every nation ...
... eternal condemnation , shall become one universal temple to the living God , in which the children of men shall learn the anthems of the blessed above , and be made meet to unite with the spirits of the redeemed , from every nation ...
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... eternal condition of its votaries ? then , there be any means by which we may subvert the empire of idolatry , any means by which we may dry up those streams of endless and intolerable anguish which issue from under its blood - stained ...
... eternal condition of its votaries ? then , there be any means by which we may subvert the empire of idolatry , any means by which we may dry up those streams of endless and intolerable anguish which issue from under its blood - stained ...
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... Eternal . The first element of the highest knowledge attainable by man or angel , had entered the mind of Roma - tane . Awful , sublime discovery ! The effervescent rapture and school - boy exultation of the Grecian geometer , on ...
... Eternal . The first element of the highest knowledge attainable by man or angel , had entered the mind of Roma - tane . Awful , sublime discovery ! The effervescent rapture and school - boy exultation of the Grecian geometer , on ...
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... glorious gospel ; let us now approach the tomb , and confer with some of the converts in the immediate prospect of entering * Williams , p . 69 . the eternal world . Vara will supply an appropriate illustration 46 ON THE SUCCESS.
... glorious gospel ; let us now approach the tomb , and confer with some of the converts in the immediate prospect of entering * Williams , p . 69 . the eternal world . Vara will supply an appropriate illustration 46 ON THE SUCCESS.
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... eternal world . Vara will supply an appropriate illustration . During the reign of idolatry , one of Vara's functions was to provide human sacrifices , and among them he offered up his own little brother to the Moloch of the South Sea ...
... eternal world . Vara will supply an appropriate illustration . During the reign of idolatry , one of Vara's functions was to provide human sacrifices , and among them he offered up his own little brother to the Moloch of the South Sea ...
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Page 276 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean : from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And i will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 324 - I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee. Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee...
Page 319 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 327 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Page 327 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more : in labours more abundant ; in stripes above measure ; in prisons more frequent ; in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one ; thrice was I beaten with rods ; once was I stoned...
Page 321 - For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Page 205 - Lord : they would none of my counsel ; they despised all my reproof: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.
Page 167 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding — if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, — then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God..
Page 145 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
Page 163 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.