Memoir of the Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D.D., Compiled Chiefly from His Own WritingsTaylor & Dodd, 1839 - 270 pages |
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... object . Why should I not return to it ? I was afraid I was tempting God by asking for direction in the way I did but I ventured to entreat him to guide me again , and I would ask but that once ; and I opened to Christ's sermon on the ...
... object . Why should I not return to it ? I was afraid I was tempting God by asking for direction in the way I did but I ventured to entreat him to guide me again , and I would ask but that once ; and I opened to Christ's sermon on the ...
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... objects . I could scarcely think or pray for any thing else . I was , as I frequently have been of late , affected with the great things which God is doing for Zion at the pre- sent day . O may thy kingdom come ! Sabbath evening , July ...
... objects . I could scarcely think or pray for any thing else . I was , as I frequently have been of late , affected with the great things which God is doing for Zion at the pre- sent day . O may thy kingdom come ! Sabbath evening , July ...
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... 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 . ( 4. ) Guard myself , when leading in ...
... 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 . ( 4. ) Guard myself , when leading in ...
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... object if the Lord should take any thing which I have , if it would promote that cause which Christ died to promote , which is the cause of all truth and of all hap- piness . Sabbath morning , August 13th . I expect to preach this ...
... object if the Lord should take any thing which I have , if it would promote that cause which Christ died to promote , which is the cause of all truth and of all hap- piness . Sabbath morning , August 13th . I expect to preach this ...
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... I expected to have commenced the journey to day , and hoped to have spent a day in devotion last week . But necessary avocations disappointed me in re- gard to the latter object , and a disappointment ( NEW - HARTFORD . 27.
... I expected to have commenced the journey to day , and hoped to have spent a day in devotion last week . But necessary avocations disappointed me in re- gard to the latter object , and a disappointment ( NEW - HARTFORD . 27.
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Page 207 - 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 208 - 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 194 - 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 198 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Page 66 - 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 180 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Page 209 - 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. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Page 194 - And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Page 170 - 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 197 - 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.