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... Gospel of John 3d chapter , 20th and 21st verses . " In the selections made , the personal taste of the writer and compiler has alone been consulted ; for since the death of Mr. Finney , many controversial articles were necessarily ...
... Gospel of John 3d chapter , 20th and 21st verses . " In the selections made , the personal taste of the writer and compiler has alone been consulted ; for since the death of Mr. Finney , many controversial articles were necessarily ...
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... gospel . After his licensure he supplied for a time the Presbyterian church of Ashland , Ohio . During the time and while he was a student at Allegheny , he and the writer corres- ponded with regard to the sin of slavery in the church ...
... gospel . After his licensure he supplied for a time the Presbyterian church of Ashland , Ohio . During the time and while he was a student at Allegheny , he and the writer corres- ponded with regard to the sin of slavery in the church ...
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... gospel of Christ . But during all this time the man - thief was permitted to preach the gospel and commune in the church , under the delusive hope that a paper testimony from the highest church courts would work a silent destruction of ...
... gospel of Christ . But during all this time the man - thief was permitted to preach the gospel and commune in the church , under the delusive hope that a paper testimony from the highest church courts would work a silent destruction of ...
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... gospel of Christ ; " if such be the character of slavery , then no language is too strong in speak- ing of those who , while claiming loudly to be the ministers of the merciful Jesus , lend all their energies to uphold the vile ...
... gospel of Christ ; " if such be the character of slavery , then no language is too strong in speak- ing of those who , while claiming loudly to be the ministers of the merciful Jesus , lend all their energies to uphold the vile ...
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... gospel ministry , Mr. Gordon's term of probation ought now to cease . Therefore , " Resolved , That Mr. Joseph Gordon be and he hereby is deprived of his license to preach the gospel , and that his name be stricken from our roll of ...
... gospel ministry , Mr. Gordon's term of probation ought now to cease . Therefore , " Resolved , That Mr. Joseph Gordon be and he hereby is deprived of his license to preach the gospel , and that his name be stricken from our roll of ...
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Page 132 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 64 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 242 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 41 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor : The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; And he shall be blessed upon the earth : And Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing : Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Page 76 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 132 - And many people shall go and say, " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : " for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn...
Page 161 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 247 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 68 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; .and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Page 196 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.