A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M.: Of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire ; and Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Late Duke of KentG. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 - 362 pages |
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... sincere and unfeigned thanks for the repeated testimonies of affection and generosity , which I have ex- perienced for upwards of two - and - twenty years at your hands : more especially do I feel myself indebted to you , during the ...
... sincere and unfeigned thanks for the repeated testimonies of affection and generosity , which I have ex- perienced for upwards of two - and - twenty years at your hands : more especially do I feel myself indebted to you , during the ...
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... sincere thanks for all your kindness to me during my stay at Cambridge , for nearly the last eight years . I look back on the time which I have there spent , with a considerable mixture of pain and pleasure . That I have done things ...
... sincere thanks for all your kindness to me during my stay at Cambridge , for nearly the last eight years . I look back on the time which I have there spent , with a considerable mixture of pain and pleasure . That I have done things ...
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... sincere and conscientious inquirer will always find , the Truth ; and his heart being interested , he learnt truth through the heart , and believed it , because he felt it . His own account of the effect produced on his mind by the peru ...
... sincere and conscientious inquirer will always find , the Truth ; and his heart being interested , he learnt truth through the heart , and believed it , because he felt it . His own account of the effect produced on his mind by the peru ...
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... sincerity of its avowal , that he is permitted to officiate at her altars , and that the dispensation of the Gospel is committed to his hands ; and , therefore , the absence of this qualification is not merely a fraud , and an act of ...
... sincerity of its avowal , that he is permitted to officiate at her altars , and that the dispensation of the Gospel is committed to his hands ; and , therefore , the absence of this qualification is not merely a fraud , and an act of ...
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... sincerely desirous of advancing in knowledge and true holiness . A copy of the first address delivered to them has ... sincere heart , God will receive and acknowledge you among the number of his children . I hope more will join them ...
... sincerely desirous of advancing in knowledge and true holiness . A copy of the first address delivered to them has ... sincere heart , God will receive and acknowledge you among the number of his children . I hope more will join them ...
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Page 174 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuons eye, 'And smiling say —
Page 240 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Page 84 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 57 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a li vely faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 279 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 142 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 341 - That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Page 349 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 85 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 148 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.