A Sermon, Delivered Before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at Their Annual Meeting May 25, 1802 |
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... mean time , re- mark that neither the divine constitution , nor the Patriarch's faith relative to the recovery of the Jews , dispels the darkness , which now hangs over the nation , and which will probably continue sev- eral generations ...
... mean time , re- mark that neither the divine constitution , nor the Patriarch's faith relative to the recovery of the Jews , dispels the darkness , which now hangs over the nation , and which will probably continue sev- eral generations ...
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... means and instruments which God uses to accomplish his sovereign purpose . Sometimes one method is adopted and sometimes another . Though never restricted to any particular measure , yet he gene- rally uses the instrumentality of gospel ...
... means and instruments which God uses to accomplish his sovereign purpose . Sometimes one method is adopted and sometimes another . Though never restricted to any particular measure , yet he gene- rally uses the instrumentality of gospel ...
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... mean time let us pray for the conversion of the heathens , and be ready to give them the right hand of fellowship . But , Seventhly . We infer the peculiar obligations of this Missionary Society to make the most faithful use of the ...
... mean time let us pray for the conversion of the heathens , and be ready to give them the right hand of fellowship . But , Seventhly . We infer the peculiar obligations of this Missionary Society to make the most faithful use of the ...
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... means to support them with honour . Who shall despise the day of small things ? Those who are for us are more than those who are against us . The mighty God , while building up Zion in re- forming the Gentiles and restoring the Jews ...
... means to support them with honour . Who shall despise the day of small things ? Those who are for us are more than those who are against us . The mighty God , while building up Zion in re- forming the Gentiles and restoring the Jews ...
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... means used to restore and heal the poor crea- ture were effectual . But he has repeatedly wished he had been killed by the saw . To escape horror of mind was the design of the miserable agent . When I approached the house , he removed ...
... means used to restore and heal the poor crea- ture were effectual . But he has repeatedly wished he had been killed by the saw . To escape horror of mind was the design of the miserable agent . When I approached the house , he removed ...
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Page 8 - After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up : that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Page 20 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 36 - ... among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 7 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 12 - For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief; even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Page 12 - 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 G-entiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 14 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Page 11 - 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 11 - 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.
Page 36 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience...