The Religions and Religious Ceremonies of All Nations: Accurately, Impartially, and Fully Described; Including Christians, Mohammedans, Jews, Brahmins, and Pagans, of All Sects and DenominationsSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1835 - 636 pages |
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Page 81
... continued recollection of the omnipresence of an all - perfect Being . But these expedients are inade- quate to the end they are proposed to answer . The first consists of an ingenious effort of the fancy , which we may sometimes , but ...
... continued recollection of the omnipresence of an all - perfect Being . But these expedients are inade- quate to the end they are proposed to answer . The first consists of an ingenious effort of the fancy , which we may sometimes , but ...
Page 87
... continued by all those who are subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople . The faith and practice of the Greek church may be briefly summed up as follow : they believe in one God , and one Lord Jesus Christ ; which belief they express ...
... continued by all those who are subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople . The faith and practice of the Greek church may be briefly summed up as follow : they believe in one God , and one Lord Jesus Christ ; which belief they express ...
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... continued for some time perfectly motionless , and destitute of heat and respiration , and was naturally supposed to be dead . In carrying him to church , it was necessary to proceed by a very uneven road , intersected with rocks and ...
... continued for some time perfectly motionless , and destitute of heat and respiration , and was naturally supposed to be dead . In carrying him to church , it was necessary to proceed by a very uneven road , intersected with rocks and ...
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... continued the only guard of the Holy Sepulchre since it was abandoned by kings . " Tour to the Jordan . - We left Jerusalem to the north , Dehind us ; on the west we had the mountains of Judea , and on the east , beyond the Red Sea ...
... continued the only guard of the Holy Sepulchre since it was abandoned by kings . " Tour to the Jordan . - We left Jerusalem to the north , Dehind us ; on the west we had the mountains of Judea , and on the east , beyond the Red Sea ...
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... continued the same , that is , white , dusty , without shade , without tree , without herbage , without moss . At half - past four we descended from the lofty chain of these mountains to another less elevated . We proceeded for fifty ...
... continued the same , that is , white , dusty , without shade , without tree , without herbage , without moss . At half - past four we descended from the lofty chain of these mountains to another less elevated . We proceeded for fifty ...
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Page 283 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Page cxxxii - THE Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.
Page 147 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 191 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 147 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
Page cxli - God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead. And that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 80 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 293 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 150 - That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.
Page 283 - Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to count the Omer." Then follows the count (in Hebrew), and below it the words : " May the Lord restore the worship of the temple speedily in our days,