The Eclectic Review, Volume 11; Volume 75Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1842 |
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... duties whose life is notoriously immoral , -at open variance with the plainest precepts of the institute he is commanded to enforce . There is such a palpable contradiction in the idea of setting men to teach what they have never ...
... duties whose life is notoriously immoral , -at open variance with the plainest precepts of the institute he is commanded to enforce . There is such a palpable contradiction in the idea of setting men to teach what they have never ...
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... duties , otherwise insupportably irksome , into a source of delight ; nothing else can enlist in their behalf the full energies of the intellect , and the strongest affections of the heart . Without it , those duties will become a ...
... duties , otherwise insupportably irksome , into a source of delight ; nothing else can enlist in their behalf the full energies of the intellect , and the strongest affections of the heart . Without it , those duties will become a ...
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... duty of encouraging or checking youthful aspirants to the ministry , have by no means been so cautious in this point as they ought to have been . Hence the anomalous fact , pointed out in our former article , and still too often ...
... duty of encouraging or checking youthful aspirants to the ministry , have by no means been so cautious in this point as they ought to have been . Hence the anomalous fact , pointed out in our former article , and still too often ...
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... duties . If ( the more frequent case ) he shrinks from a combination of tasks too gigantic for an undis- ciplined mind ... duty , and engage with vigour and persevere with patience , in any task , however irksome and difficult , to which ...
... duties . If ( the more frequent case ) he shrinks from a combination of tasks too gigantic for an undis- ciplined mind ... duty , and engage with vigour and persevere with patience , in any task , however irksome and difficult , to which ...
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... duty to explain , enforce , and illustrate ; and fourthly , that he might not enter upon his great work too young ... duties of an arduous profession ; and least of all , he who enters upon the Christian ministry . Such is a brief ...
... duty to explain , enforce , and illustrate ; and fourthly , that he might not enter upon his great work too young ... duties of an arduous profession ; and least of all , he who enters upon the Christian ministry . Such is a brief ...
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Page 164 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 112 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 234 - Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page 239 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Page 99 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 65 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 231 - The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Page 260 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...
Page 483 - THE GREAT COMMISSION ; Or, the Christian Church constituted and charged to convey the Gospel to the World.
Page 260 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.