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... interests of true religion in the world .椰 The comparison we have here made between the several advantages of the primitive Christians , and those possessed by Christians now , in relation to the work of spreading the gospel , must I ...
... interests of true religion in the world .椰 The comparison we have here made between the several advantages of the primitive Christians , and those possessed by Christians now , in relation to the work of spreading the gospel , must I ...
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... interests of the Church . The remarks which have been made are fitted to convince such persons , that they have enter- tained low and unworthy views of the work of spreading the gospel . This work we have seen is more a privilege than a ...
... interests of the Church . The remarks which have been made are fitted to convince such persons , that they have enter- tained low and unworthy views of the work of spreading the gospel . This work we have seen is more a privilege than a ...
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... interest . God eould have accomplished this work without the aid of his people ; but in that case his people must have suffered . It is an honor , a privilege , and a mercy to them , that he is pleased to employ them . Let it then be ...
... interest . God eould have accomplished this work without the aid of his people ; but in that case his people must have suffered . It is an honor , a privilege , and a mercy to them , that he is pleased to employ them . Let it then be ...
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... interest and best good require . REFLECTIONS . 1. From what has been said we learn , that the people of God have a resource , of which the world are ignorant . This is the power and perfection of Je- hovah , which they may enlist on ...
... interest and best good require . REFLECTIONS . 1. From what has been said we learn , that the people of God have a resource , of which the world are ignorant . This is the power and perfection of Je- hovah , which they may enlist on ...
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... interests of religion most deeply require . It is the want of such prayer , which clothes the Churches at home in sackcloth , and spreads spiritual dearth and barrenness round the land . And it is the want of such prayer , more probably ...
... interests of religion most deeply require . It is the want of such prayer , which clothes the Churches at home in sackcloth , and spreads spiritual dearth and barrenness round the land . And it is the want of such prayer , more probably ...
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Page 18 - As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said ; Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 82 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
Page 221 - They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Page 37 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 23 - Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
Page 201 - For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, -and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree ; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree...
Page 201 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits,) that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved ; as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Page 203 - Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness...
Page 53 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Page 28 - That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...