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... person , or more zealously devoted to his cause . When many of his disciples who had expected from the Messiah a worldly kingdom , became offended with a discourse in which he had intimated that the blessings he came to procure and ...
... person , or more zealously devoted to his cause . When many of his disciples who had expected from the Messiah a worldly kingdom , became offended with a discourse in which he had intimated that the blessings he came to procure and ...
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... person sent by another , a messenger . The term is , in the New Testament , generally employed as the descriptive appellation of a comparatively small class of men to whom Jesus Christ intrusted the organization of his Church , and the ...
... person sent by another , a messenger . The term is , in the New Testament , generally employed as the descriptive appellation of a comparatively small class of men to whom Jesus Christ intrusted the organization of his Church , and the ...
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... persons to whom the epistle is addressed , come next to be con- sidered . They are described first , generally , as " elect , " or chosen , and then , particularly , both as to their external circumstances and to their spiritual state ...
... persons to whom the epistle is addressed , come next to be con- sidered . They are described first , generally , as " elect , " or chosen , and then , particularly , both as to their external circumstances and to their spiritual state ...
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... person , born to a rich inheritance , has never obtained possession of it , but has lived and died in poverty ; but this inheritance is liable to none of the accidents of earth and time . It is " in heaven , " under the immediate ...
... person , born to a rich inheritance , has never obtained possession of it , but has lived and died in poverty ; but this inheritance is liable to none of the accidents of earth and time . It is " in heaven , " under the immediate ...
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... person living in unbelief and sin , to suppose that he can be in the way of obtaining celestial blessedness . So much for the illustration of the second blessing for which the apostle gives thanks - the future inheritance which God has ...
... person living in unbelief and sin , to suppose that he can be in the way of obtaining celestial blessedness . So much for the illustration of the second blessing for which the apostle gives thanks - the future inheritance which God has ...
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Page 334 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
Page 202 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 274 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 301 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 89 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 615 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 43 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth ; even in him...
Page 527 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lifted up, ye 'everlasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 319 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death...
Page 365 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.