Evangelical Biography: Being a Complete and Fruitful Account of the Lives ... & Happy Deaths of Eminent Christians : who Have Shone with Distinguished Lustre ...J. Stratford, 1807 - Christian biography |
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... lived privately after leaving Christ Church College , Oxford ; and when the times allowed , he set up a meeting at Rotherhithe , near London , where he had a very nume- rous auditory , and a great reformation was wrought amongst many ...
... lived privately after leaving Christ Church College , Oxford ; and when the times allowed , he set up a meeting at Rotherhithe , near London , where he had a very nume- rous auditory , and a great reformation was wrought amongst many ...
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... lived like a man quite weary of the world , almost in the immediate view of a better . His temper , his language , his deportment , all spoke him one of another world . His meditations were so intense , long , and frequent , that they ...
... lived like a man quite weary of the world , almost in the immediate view of a better . His temper , his language , his deportment , all spoke him one of another world . His meditations were so intense , long , and frequent , that they ...
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... lived with him much beloved till nine years old , when his mother , fearing his want of a religious education there , took him home , to the great displeasure of the old gentle- man . She and her second husband were very careful to ...
... lived with him much beloved till nine years old , when his mother , fearing his want of a religious education there , took him home , to the great displeasure of the old gentle- man . She and her second husband were very careful to ...
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... lived in the vicarage , he was one night robbed of his plate , mo- ney , and watches , by four men , three of whom broke into the house , while the other held the horses . When he per- ceived them coming up the stairs , he said , " The ...
... lived in the vicarage , he was one night robbed of his plate , mo- ney , and watches , by four men , three of whom broke into the house , while the other held the horses . When he per- ceived them coming up the stairs , he said , " The ...
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... lived at a distance discontinued it , and others died before him , so that he had but a scanty subsistence in his old age , from his school , and a small estate of about twelve pounds a year . He used to spend much of his time in ...
... lived at a distance discontinued it , and others died before him , so that he had but a scanty subsistence in his old age , from his school , and a small estate of about twelve pounds a year . He used to spend much of his time in ...
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Page 48 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 108 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 163 - They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard ; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Page 194 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 5 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit ; I have found a ransom.
Page 56 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Page 97 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 6 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 132 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 278 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.