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... Christ and of souls , in this important and holy call- ing , they recognise and impress throughout the sove- reignty , the supremacy of the grace of God ; they ... Christian fel- * lowship , as developed in the second chapter of iv PREFACE .
... Christ and of souls , in this important and holy call- ing , they recognise and impress throughout the sove- reignty , the supremacy of the grace of God ; they ... Christian fel- * lowship , as developed in the second chapter of iv PREFACE .
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... Christian congregation of imparting to those who are in need , whether the necessity itself be of the body or the ... Christians want em- ployment ? - WILBERFORCE . - clergy are but as standard - bearers in the great a 3 PREFACE .
... Christian congregation of imparting to those who are in need , whether the necessity itself be of the body or the ... Christians want em- ployment ? - WILBERFORCE . - clergy are but as standard - bearers in the great a 3 PREFACE .
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... Christ - and every warrior of the cross ought to enter into the contest as though the issue depended on him- self ... Christian picture can be presented to our contemplation , than that of a minister uniting with himself the best ...
... Christ - and every warrior of the cross ought to enter into the contest as though the issue depended on him- self ... Christian picture can be presented to our contemplation , than that of a minister uniting with himself the best ...
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... wants of every different age and class , and thus striving , as far as may be allowed , to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus . -BISHOP OF CHESTER , humble but sincere attempt to promote the interests of Christian PREFACE . vii.
... wants of every different age and class , and thus striving , as far as may be allowed , to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus . -BISHOP OF CHESTER , humble but sincere attempt to promote the interests of Christian PREFACE . vii.
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... Christian charity ; and that the Committee may receive the best recompense of their unassuming but most useful ... Christ also hath loved them ; " whose practice , " to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction , and to keep ...
... Christian charity ; and that the Committee may receive the best recompense of their unassuming but most useful ... Christ also hath loved them ; " whose practice , " to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction , and to keep ...
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Page 13 - So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you ? Ye call Me, Master, and Lord ; and ye say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 45 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 132 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 234 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 14 - Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost Thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Page 94 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 46 - just live by faith;" and the loss of this life can only be by unbelief: so the " life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us,
Page 94 - The LORD liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ; And let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Page 189 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.