Consecrated Culture: Memorials of Benjamin Alfred Gregory, M.A. Oxon |
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... close . Some explanation seems needed of the delay in its appearance . This has resulted from the ever - pressing literary duties of the author's office , from a succession of exhausting illnesses , from the abundance of the material ...
... close . Some explanation seems needed of the delay in its appearance . This has resulted from the ever - pressing literary duties of the author's office , from a succession of exhausting illnesses , from the abundance of the material ...
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... close attention , and thought , and memory , and a large amount of intelligence . Such an aptitude for sacred studies ought to find exercise in the sacred function , provided there be no barrier of which I am ignorant . Will you ...
... close attention , and thought , and memory , and a large amount of intelligence . Such an aptitude for sacred studies ought to find exercise in the sacred function , provided there be no barrier of which I am ignorant . Will you ...
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... close of the old year , and the Covenant Service on the first Sabbath of the new year , and then that solemnity itselt , with its consummating Sacrament . All these agencies were adapted to and illustrative of his many- sided intellect ...
... close of the old year , and the Covenant Service on the first Sabbath of the new year , and then that solemnity itselt , with its consummating Sacrament . All these agencies were adapted to and illustrative of his many- sided intellect ...
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... close of 1864 I thought that I could perceive in Alfred signs of religious anxiousness ; and having been long expecting some decisive spontaneous movement , I began to feel that the time had come for personal enquiry as to my son's ...
... close of 1864 I thought that I could perceive in Alfred signs of religious anxiousness ; and having been long expecting some decisive spontaneous movement , I began to feel that the time had come for personal enquiry as to my son's ...
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... close this chapter with some of his younger brother's recollections of this Altrincham period : ' When Alfred removed to the Manchester Grammar School , though he found himself amongst boys older than he , yet he steadily gravitated ...
... close this chapter with some of his younger brother's recollections of this Altrincham period : ' When Alfred removed to the Manchester Grammar School , though he found himself amongst boys older than he , yet he steadily gravitated ...
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Page 336 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Page 401 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 340 - And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
Page 331 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Page 367 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto -you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 343 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Page 180 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Page 336 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 348 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.
Page 21 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer ; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.