Discourses on Various Points of Christian Faith and Practice: Most of which Were Delivered in the Chapel of the Oratoire in Paris in the Spring of M.DCCC.XVIP.W. Gallaudet, 1818 - 239 pages |
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... who thus gene- rously furnish us with so convenient a place for worship ; I should poorly discharge the duties of the sacred office , did I not call upon you to look B with the eye of gratitude to that Being whose superintending.
... who thus gene- rously furnish us with so convenient a place for worship ; I should poorly discharge the duties of the sacred office , did I not call upon you to look B with the eye of gratitude to that Being whose superintending.
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... duty , we must expect to re- ceive at last the kindest tokens of his love or the severest marks of his displeasure . With these momentous truths in view , and feeling my own weakness and insufficiency , I venture to address you , and ...
... duty , we must expect to re- ceive at last the kindest tokens of his love or the severest marks of his displeasure . With these momentous truths in view , and feeling my own weakness and insufficiency , I venture to address you , and ...
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... duty of deciding , whether , while we recognize their force with regard to our temporal interests , we also apply them to the more important concerns of eternity . The first of these principles is , that no prudent man , who consults ...
... duty of deciding , whether , while we recognize their force with regard to our temporal interests , we also apply them to the more important concerns of eternity . The first of these principles is , that no prudent man , who consults ...
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... duty to make proportionate , and in some cases therefore great , sacrifices for the attainment of distant good . -In applying these principles I have not done justice to the Christian's cause . I have supposed it possible for the man of ...
... duty to make proportionate , and in some cases therefore great , sacrifices for the attainment of distant good . -In applying these principles I have not done justice to the Christian's cause . I have supposed it possible for the man of ...
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... duties and the trials of a Christian , are not well understood , or they would not so often be rejected . It is admitted by all , that unalloyed happiness is not the lot of man . Every eye is directed to something future : every heart ...
... duties and the trials of a Christian , are not well understood , or they would not so often be rejected . It is admitted by all , that unalloyed happiness is not the lot of man . Every eye is directed to something future : every heart ...
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Page 6 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 242 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height ; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 8 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; For he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.
Page 249 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 121 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 198 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 113 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 133 - Servants obey in all things your masters, according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Page 196 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 64 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6. And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.