Short Missionary Discourses, Or Monthly Concert LecturesDorr and Howland. E. and G. Merriam, printers., 1824 - 259 pages |
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... darkness . • 3. In view of the principles which have been es- tablished we may see why it is , that those portions : of the Christian Church have been the most highly favoured , and have exhibited the brightest evidences of grace ...
... darkness . • 3. In view of the principles which have been es- tablished we may see why it is , that those portions : of the Christian Church have been the most highly favoured , and have exhibited the brightest evidences of grace ...
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... darkness visi- ble " ? Will you forsake the fountain opened in the gospel ; and " welcome to your hearts a religion which , if sin shall annoy , and the fear of punishment invade , will send you to drink of the waters that lave your ...
... darkness visi- ble " ? Will you forsake the fountain opened in the gospel ; and " welcome to your hearts a religion which , if sin shall annoy , and the fear of punishment invade , will send you to drink of the waters that lave your ...
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... darkness . Not satisfied to continue building " on another man's foundation , " as soon as he had been called by the Holy Ghost to plant the standard of the cross in heathen lands , he most cheerfully obeyed . He entered the dominions ...
... darkness . Not satisfied to continue building " on another man's foundation , " as soon as he had been called by the Holy Ghost to plant the standard of the cross in heathen lands , he most cheerfully obeyed . He entered the dominions ...
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... darkness melted away under the influence of his pursuasions ; churches rose up after him as if by miracle ; and in comparatively a little time , a greater part of the Ro- man empire was filled with his doctrine . Paul's labor , as a ...
... darkness melted away under the influence of his pursuasions ; churches rose up after him as if by miracle ; and in comparatively a little time , a greater part of the Ro- man empire was filled with his doctrine . Paul's labor , as a ...
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... darkness which are still spread upon the earth . - Far be it from me so much as to insinuate that the present Missionaries to the heathen are not faithful men . I have the utmost confidence that , in the general , they are faithful men ...
... darkness which are still spread upon the earth . - Far be it from me so much as to insinuate that the present Missionaries to the heathen are not faithful men . I have the utmost confidence that , in the general , they are faithful men ...
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Page 18 - As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said ; Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 82 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
Page 221 - They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Page 37 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 23 - Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
Page 201 - For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, -and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree ; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree...
Page 201 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits,) that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved ; as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Page 203 - Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness...
Page 53 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Page 28 - That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...