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... Blessing , to accomplish either object . So far as I have been able to examine it , the facts and illustrations appear to have been selected with remarkable care and judgment ; and , while they stir up to renewed diligence those who are ...
... Blessing , to accomplish either object . So far as I have been able to examine it , the facts and illustrations appear to have been selected with remarkable care and judgment ; and , while they stir up to renewed diligence those who are ...
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... blessed Saviour stood to the apostles he had chosen . Had this ceremony , indeed , been performed by the apostles with the same annual regularity with which they almost daily celebrated the supper of the Lord , and had they expressly ...
... blessed Saviour stood to the apostles he had chosen . Had this ceremony , indeed , been performed by the apostles with the same annual regularity with which they almost daily celebrated the supper of the Lord , and had they expressly ...
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... blessed for ever , performed it for those who were among the poorest and least esteemed of weak and miserable mortals . 2. The washing of the apostles ' feet was not an act es- sential to the supply of their necessary wants , or ...
... blessed for ever , performed it for those who were among the poorest and least esteemed of weak and miserable mortals . 2. The washing of the apostles ' feet was not an act es- sential to the supply of their necessary wants , or ...
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... blessed Redeemer intended we should perform , when he commended his own example to the notice of his disciples , and required them to do to others as he had done to them . The conclusions he had thus drawn from the washing of the ...
... blessed Redeemer intended we should perform , when he commended his own example to the notice of his disciples , and required them to do to others as he had done to them . The conclusions he had thus drawn from the washing of the ...
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... blessings they have received an instrument of beneficence and usefulness to those who are without them . They rise from their sumptuous fare , and quit their splendid dwellings , and lay aside the garment of proud pre - eminence , which ...
... blessings they have received an instrument of beneficence and usefulness to those who are without them . They rise from their sumptuous fare , and quit their splendid dwellings , and lay aside the garment of proud pre - eminence , which ...
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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.