Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ...W. Baynes, 1816 - Christian biography |
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... afterwards dedicated to him his commentary upon the first epistle to the Thessa- lonians . He was removed from his tuition , and placed under the care of Hispanus , a Spanish master , in Montague college , where he studied logic and ...
... afterwards dedicated to him his commentary upon the first epistle to the Thessa- lonians . He was removed from his tuition , and placed under the care of Hispanus , a Spanish master , in Montague college , where he studied logic and ...
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... afterwards wrote a lively description of the abuses of a monastic life . Calvin made great progress in the civil law ; and pur- sued his private studies in the holy Scriptures with equal success . He was incited to the latter by ...
... afterwards wrote a lively description of the abuses of a monastic life . Calvin made great progress in the civil law ; and pur- sued his private studies in the holy Scriptures with equal success . He was incited to the latter by ...
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... afterwards retouched his Christian Institution , " and rendered it so excellent in Latin , that it was admired even by Scaliger . The work was divided into four books , and contained eighty chapters . It was first printed at Basil in ...
... afterwards retouched his Christian Institution , " and rendered it so excellent in Latin , that it was admired even by Scaliger . The work was divided into four books , and contained eighty chapters . It was first printed at Basil in ...
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... afterwards translated into almost all the European languages . When Calvin had published this book , he made a jour- ney into Italy , to wait on the duchess of Ferrara , the daughter of Lewis XII . She was a princess of exemplary piety ...
... afterwards translated into almost all the European languages . When Calvin had published this book , he made a jour- ney into Italy , to wait on the duchess of Ferrara , the daughter of Lewis XII . She was a princess of exemplary piety ...
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... afterwards to do ; this had both prevented all occasion of just dislike which others might take , and reserved a greater liberty unto the authors themselves of entering into a farther consultation after- wards ; which , though never so ...
... afterwards to do ; this had both prevented all occasion of just dislike which others might take , and reserved a greater liberty unto the authors themselves of entering into a farther consultation after- wards ; which , though never so ...
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Page 273 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Page 468 - Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When thou, hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 104 - 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 468 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 240 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels...
Page 339 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 274 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 396 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils.
Page 378 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 472 - Many that then saw his tears and heard his faint and hollow voice professing they thought the text prophetically chosen and that Dr. Donne "had preached his own funeral sermon." Being full of joy that God had enabled him to perform this desired duty, he hastened to his house; out of which he never moved till, like St. Stephen, he was carried by devout men to his grave.