A reply to the Letters of the abbé Dubois, on the state of Christianity in India1824 |
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... Heathen Philosophers , such as Socrates and a few more , who have submitted to death , rather than renounce their sentiments : whilst Plato , Seneca , and various Greek and Latin Authors , have , upon philosophic principles alone ...
... Heathen Philosophers , such as Socrates and a few more , who have submitted to death , rather than renounce their sentiments : whilst Plato , Seneca , and various Greek and Latin Authors , have , upon philosophic principles alone ...
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... heathen , besides the usual native congregation . " The same evening , " the Missionary writes , " Cornelius ( the name he had received at his baptism ) was summoned before the Headman of his caste . This man had formerly been very kind ...
... heathen , besides the usual native congregation . " The same evening , " the Missionary writes , " Cornelius ( the name he had received at his baptism ) was summoned before the Headman of his caste . This man had formerly been very kind ...
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... Heathen under their controul : while many * Asiatic Journal , for October , November , and December 1823 . -The Address read to the Meeting is particularly deserving of perusal , though too long for insertion here . a corner . " of the ...
... Heathen under their controul : while many * Asiatic Journal , for October , November , and December 1823 . -The Address read to the Meeting is particularly deserving of perusal , though too long for insertion here . a corner . " of the ...
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... Heathen , is obvious - he is bound to en- force upon them the necessity of renouncing every idolatrous practice , before they can be admitted as Members of the Church of God . The Abbé Dubois and his Brethren have adopted the opposite ...
... Heathen , is obvious - he is bound to en- force upon them the necessity of renouncing every idolatrous practice , before they can be admitted as Members of the Church of God . The Abbé Dubois and his Brethren have adopted the opposite ...
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... Heathen , is so accurately marked out , and the Jesuits ' departure from that line so strikingly expressed , in the fol- lowing Extract , that I shall make no apology for transcribing it . The author is exposing the sin of Worldly ...
... Heathen , is so accurately marked out , and the Jesuits ' departure from that line so strikingly expressed , in the fol- lowing Extract , that I shall make no apology for transcribing it . The author is exposing the sin of Worldly ...
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Page 18 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 265 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 213 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 161 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 188 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 28 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shaU rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 213 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day!
Page 31 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 212 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.