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... frequently interfere with the more sordid interests of man ; and we expect him to increase the difficulties of our undertaking . If we can turn the heathen to God , many a source of unholy traffick will be dried up , and many a ...
... frequently interfere with the more sordid interests of man ; and we expect him to increase the difficulties of our undertaking . If we can turn the heathen to God , many a source of unholy traffick will be dried up , and many a ...
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... frequently desolated the continent . The momen- tous events to which every campaign gave birth , have quickened the desire of intelligence in every class of society , and taught men more or less to reflect upon the principles which led ...
... frequently desolated the continent . The momen- tous events to which every campaign gave birth , have quickened the desire of intelligence in every class of society , and taught men more or less to reflect upon the principles which led ...
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... frequent , and almost as regular , as that by ordinary mails . The commercial houses of every nation are establishing their agencies in the principal cities of every other nation , and thus binding together the people by every tie of ...
... frequent , and almost as regular , as that by ordinary mails . The commercial houses of every nation are establishing their agencies in the principal cities of every other nation , and thus binding together the people by every tie of ...
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... frequent occurrence . Local questions are becoming of less , and general questions of greater importance . Thanks be to God , men have at last begun to understand the rights , and to feel for the wrongs , of each other . Mountains ...
... frequent occurrence . Local questions are becoming of less , and general questions of greater importance . Thanks be to God , men have at last begun to understand the rights , and to feel for the wrongs , of each other . Mountains ...
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... frequently alluded to , that to mention every passage in which it is either asserted or taken for granted , would occupy all the time which is set apart for the remainder of this discourse . A But why need I mention particular passages ...
... frequently alluded to , that to mention every passage in which it is either asserted or taken for granted , would occupy all the time which is set apart for the remainder of this discourse . A But why need I mention particular passages ...
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Page 179 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Page 295 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 185 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height ; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 168 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 67 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Page 185 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together.
Page 182 - That is, the word of faith, which we preach, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.) For the scripture saith ; Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Page 38 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature ; and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world.
Page 96 - Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth.
Page 80 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us ; And cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations.