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... Apostle treats the subject , one would fancy that he had in view the Hindoo Brahmins , when he wrote it . If one would draw up the character of this caste of Hindoos , it could not be bet- ter done , than by literally transcribing the ...
... Apostle treats the subject , one would fancy that he had in view the Hindoo Brahmins , when he wrote it . If one would draw up the character of this caste of Hindoos , it could not be bet- ter done , than by literally transcribing the ...
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... Apostles . They have as yet manifested little of that perverse temper which led the Jews , at one time , to take offence at the strictness of John the Baptist ; and , at another , at the freedom of Christ : ( Matt . xi . 16-19 . ) They ...
... Apostles . They have as yet manifested little of that perverse temper which led the Jews , at one time , to take offence at the strictness of John the Baptist ; and , at another , at the freedom of Christ : ( Matt . xi . 16-19 . ) They ...
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... Apostles to begin the preaching of repent- ance and remission of sins at Jerusalem : ( Id.xxiv.47 . ) Accordingly , St. Peter , having reproved the men of Israel " for denying " the Holy One and the Just , " and killing " the Prince of ...
... Apostles to begin the preaching of repent- ance and remission of sins at Jerusalem : ( Id.xxiv.47 . ) Accordingly , St. Peter , having reproved the men of Israel " for denying " the Holy One and the Just , " and killing " the Prince of ...
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... Apostles also confined their ministry to the Jews ; and even when , upon the persecution . which arose after the death of Stephen , they were scattered abroad , very few of the Dis- ciples travelled beyond the land of Pales- tine ( Acts ...
... Apostles also confined their ministry to the Jews ; and even when , upon the persecution . which arose after the death of Stephen , they were scattered abroad , very few of the Dis- ciples travelled beyond the land of Pales- tine ( Acts ...
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... Apostles continued to exert themselves , as already shewn , to promote the conversion of their brethren . Then , even though M. Dubois be correct in charging those Hindoos who have rejected the Roman - Catholic mode of faith with com ...
... Apostles continued to exert themselves , as already shewn , to promote the conversion of their brethren . Then , even though M. Dubois be correct in charging those Hindoos who have rejected the Roman - Catholic mode of faith with com ...
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Page 18 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 267 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 161 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 213 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn ! See future sons and daughters, yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 188 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 28 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shaU rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 213 - Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Page 31 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 212 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.