The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Volume 6Peirce and Williams, 1833 |
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... efforts of their unsanctified nature can be pleasing to God , and that un- less they are born again , they cannot see his kingdom . Look at another class of persons , namely , those who have been seriously attentive to the subject of ...
... efforts of their unsanctified nature can be pleasing to God , and that un- less they are born again , they cannot see his kingdom . Look at another class of persons , namely , those who have been seriously attentive to the subject of ...
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... efforts ? No. The word of God and our own experience unite in teaching , that in respect to the actual conversion of sinners , " neither is he that planteth any thing , nor he that watereth . " Can we rely upon the mere power of truth ...
... efforts ? No. The word of God and our own experience unite in teaching , that in respect to the actual conversion of sinners , " neither is he that planteth any thing , nor he that watereth . " Can we rely upon the mere power of truth ...
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... efforts of man , or to the mere influence of truth , as its proper cause , to ascribe it to any thing but the agency of the divine Spirit , is , in my ap- prehension , a fundamental error - an error which robs God of his glory , and ...
... efforts of man , or to the mere influence of truth , as its proper cause , to ascribe it to any thing but the agency of the divine Spirit , is , in my ap- prehension , a fundamental error - an error which robs God of his glory , and ...
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... efforts . They were still statesmen , though the communities over which their influence was exerted , were composed of red men , instead of white . They were still patriots , though they fought only for wild lands and wild liber- ty ...
... efforts . They were still statesmen , though the communities over which their influence was exerted , were composed of red men , instead of white . They were still patriots , though they fought only for wild lands and wild liber- ty ...
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... Efforts for the Promotion of Peace : A Discourse pronounced in the Centre Church in Hartford , at the Celebration of the Anni- versary of the Hartford County Peace Society . By LEONARD BACON , Pastor of the first Church in New Haven ...
... Efforts for the Promotion of Peace : A Discourse pronounced in the Centre Church in Hartford , at the Celebration of the Anni- versary of the Hartford County Peace Society . By LEONARD BACON , Pastor of the first Church in New Haven ...
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Page 346 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 345 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet ; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 345 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 343 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 427 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 345 - Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week. I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 344 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Page 731 - I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Page 105 - For as we have many members In one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.