Memoir of the Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D.D.Packard, Van Benthuysen and Company, 1838 - 270 pages |
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... sense , and extensively known in the civil history both of the state and nation . * He had two brothers , ( Col. JOSIAH GRIFFIN , of East Haddam , and GEORGE GRIFFIN , Esq . an eminent lawyer of the city of New - York , ) and five ...
... sense , and extensively known in the civil history both of the state and nation . * He had two brothers , ( Col. JOSIAH GRIFFIN , of East Haddam , and GEORGE GRIFFIN , Esq . an eminent lawyer of the city of New - York , ) and five ...
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... sense of propriety kept me from vicious courses . After I graduated , I engaged as principal of an academy at Derby , about ten miles west of New - Haven , where I spent nine of the gayest months of my life . In July , 1791 , I was ...
... sense of propriety kept me from vicious courses . After I graduated , I engaged as principal of an academy at Derby , about ten miles west of New - Haven , where I spent nine of the gayest months of my life . In July , 1791 , I was ...
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... I have any distinct recollection , or from whom I received any deep and permanent sense of divine things . I was twelve years old when he preached in this town ; and I remember his person , attitude , 8 PREVIOUS TO HIS.
... I have any distinct recollection , or from whom I received any deep and permanent sense of divine things . I was twelve years old when he preached in this town ; and I remember his person , attitude , 8 PREVIOUS TO HIS.
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... sense of my sin . ( 3. ) As the chief object of our prayers is to be , by express agreement , the advancement of Zion , I would wish to pos- sess myself of views of the worth of the church , and of the importance of her being advanced ...
... sense of my sin . ( 3. ) As the chief object of our prayers is to be , by express agreement , the advancement of Zion , I would wish to pos- sess myself of views of the worth of the church , and of the importance of her being advanced ...
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... sense of the worth of souls , and some desires for their salvation . But yet much self was mingled with my ex- ercises . Much of my apparent zeal , I fear , arose from pride and animal affection . If souls are so important as I have re ...
... sense of the worth of souls , and some desires for their salvation . But yet much self was mingled with my ex- ercises . Much of my apparent zeal , I fear , arose from pride and animal affection . If souls are so important as I have re ...
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Page 169 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ...
Page 156 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven ; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Page 158 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 170 - FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 170 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 52 - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Page 132 - Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms.
Page 159 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 150 - Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 156 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?