 | Clifford Grant Howell - Missionaries - 1912 - 390 pages
...soul, 'Live.' " And there is life in God's word. "When I came to this blessed family," he continues, "I then saw, and never before, the power of godliness in its lively vigor and efficiency." How different would have been the results had that been a gilded rather than... | |
 | Cambridge (Mass.) - 1914 - 414 pages
...the Lord said to my dead soul live; and through the grace of Christ I do live and shall live forever! When I came to this blessed family I then saw, and...never before, the power of godliness in its lively vigor and efficacy. But Mr. Hooker was not allowed to remain here •unmolested. In 1630 he was cited... | |
 | Baptists - 1837 - 658 pages
...religion urged upon his affections and his life. " When I came to this blessed family," says he, " 1 then saw, and never before, the power of godliness, in its lively vigor and efficacy." And it is doubtless to be ascribed, in some degree, at least, to the pious counsels... | |
 | 1822 - 512 pages
...that religion urged upon his affections and his life. "When I came to this blessed family," says he, " I then saw, and never before, the power of godliness in its lively vigour and efficacy." And it is doubtless to be ascribed, in some degree at least, to the pious counsels and judicious influence... | |
 | American literature - 1876 - 1022 pages
...at Little Baddow, as a rich blessing for himself. "When I came to this blessed family," he wrote, " I then saw, and never before, the power of godliness in its lively vigor and efficacy. " From that time Eliot resolved to devote his life to the Christian ministry. In... | |
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To this place I was called, through the infinite riches of God's mercy in Christ Jesus to my poor soul : for here the Lord said unto my dead soul, live; and through the grace of Christ, I do live, and I shall live for ever! When I came to this blessed... 
