The Gospel Adapted to the Wants of the World: A Sermon, Preached in Providence, R.I., Sept. 9, 1840, Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at Their Thirty-first Annual MeetingCrocker & Brewster, 1840 - 31 pages |
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... fact is fully settled in the Bible . It was , for ages , the grand theme of the Old Testament prophets ; and the truths which they committed , in strains of exalted poetry , to the sacred lyre , have been taken up and expounded with ...
... fact is fully settled in the Bible . It was , for ages , the grand theme of the Old Testament prophets ; and the truths which they committed , in strains of exalted poetry , to the sacred lyre , have been taken up and expounded with ...
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... facts of the same character are interwoven with the whole history of modern missions . Such have been the triumphs of the Gospel in our day , that the fool- ishness of infidelity , which has loudly asserted that Christianity cannot be ...
... facts of the same character are interwoven with the whole history of modern missions . Such have been the triumphs of the Gospel in our day , that the fool- ishness of infidelity , which has loudly asserted that Christianity cannot be ...
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... fact . As to their systems of philosophy , they were too refined and subtle to be received by common minds . I do not say understood , for it may be fairly doubted whether they were under- stood by any . They were marked by intellectual ...
... fact . As to their systems of philosophy , they were too refined and subtle to be received by common minds . I do not say understood , for it may be fairly doubted whether they were under- stood by any . They were marked by intellectual ...
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... facts , it records them as they are , and in their proper rela- tions ; in the revelation of doctrines , it presents them as fundamental truths which are to be ac- credited , and makes no explanations of the former , and enters into no ...
... facts , it records them as they are , and in their proper rela- tions ; in the revelation of doctrines , it presents them as fundamental truths which are to be ac- credited , and makes no explanations of the former , and enters into no ...
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... fact , are designed to protect some false system of religion , which has become publicly wedded to the state , and which , every one must know , would inevitably fall before the powers of the Gospel . REMARKS . 1. The religion of the ...
... fact , are designed to protect some false system of religion , which has become publicly wedded to the state , and which , every one must know , would inevitably fall before the powers of the Gospel . REMARKS . 1. The religion of the ...
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Page 4 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 12 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 8 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ; all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Page 4 - But rise, and stand upon thy feet : for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee...
Page 5 - For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.
Page 7 - And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba : prayer also shall be made for him continually ; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 20 - He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Page 8 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 31 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 22 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?