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... things , spectral and appalling , crept from their graves to vex the tainted air ; madness of delusion , insanity of crime and cruelty , extrava- gance of blasphemy , extremity of suffering , at which mankind stood aghast , were the ...
... things , spectral and appalling , crept from their graves to vex the tainted air ; madness of delusion , insanity of crime and cruelty , extrava- gance of blasphemy , extremity of suffering , at which mankind stood aghast , were the ...
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... things favour the pulpit at the present time , and enhance the value of its influence , as compared with the pulpit of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . In the first place , immense progress has been made in the scientific ...
... things favour the pulpit at the present time , and enhance the value of its influence , as compared with the pulpit of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . In the first place , immense progress has been made in the scientific ...
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... thing we are certain : -that , in the history of the world , so far as it has hitherto gone , there has been no instance of a religion pausing and ceasing to advance , without at the same time commencing to decay ; while , on the other ...
... thing we are certain : -that , in the history of the world , so far as it has hitherto gone , there has been no instance of a religion pausing and ceasing to advance , without at the same time commencing to decay ; while , on the other ...
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... thing from what it can be when the fountains of the soul are frozen up by the antipathy of the bigot , or shut with the clamps of an iron dogmatism . One would have thought that on the very face of Scripture - infinite in its variety ...
... thing from what it can be when the fountains of the soul are frozen up by the antipathy of the bigot , or shut with the clamps of an iron dogmatism . One would have thought that on the very face of Scripture - infinite in its variety ...
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... things , and strove to speak , As when a great thought strikes along the brain , And flushes all the cheek . melody , to be taken into the mind and lovingly cherished . No fear of plagiarism . Originality can take care of itself . All ...
... things , and strove to speak , As when a great thought strikes along the brain , And flushes all the cheek . melody , to be taken into the mind and lovingly cherished . No fear of plagiarism . Originality can take care of itself . All ...
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Page 22 - Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is within you ? Again he saith, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
Page 15 - No, by no means, I will not stir, neither will I have the meeting dismissed for this. Come, be of good cheer; let us not be daunted; our cause is good, we need not be ashamed of it; to preach God's Word, is so good a work, that we shall be well rewarded, if we suffer for that...
Page 15 - God of his mercy should choose me to go upon the forlorn hope in this country; that is, to be the first, that should be opposed, for the gospel ; if I should fly, it might be a discouragement to the whole body that might follow after.
Page 15 - ... end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special licence from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it, I tell you plainly ; ' — and so he bid my jailer have me away.
Page 15 - You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm...
Page 19 - Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 20 - Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Page 19 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Page 15 - I told him, as to this matter, I was at a point with him; for if I were out of prison today, I would preach the Gospel again tomorrow, by the help of God.
Page 12 - ... faithful to duty — to open the world's dim eye to the majesty of conscience — to gather and instruct the orphans bereft of a father's blessing and of a mother's prayer — to care for the outcast and abandoned, who have drunk in iniquity with their mother's milk, whom the priest and the...