Biblical Repository and Quarterly ObserverJ. M. Sherwood., 1840 |
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... Religion too exerts its strongest and steadiest influence upon a people , when it is blended with their historical ... religious doctrine and directing the spirit of religious institutions . Any one of these causes , then , completely ...
... Religion too exerts its strongest and steadiest influence upon a people , when it is blended with their historical ... religious doctrine and directing the spirit of religious institutions . Any one of these causes , then , completely ...
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... religion ? Some superficial observers have an idea that the tendencies of our system of society are all to irreligion , to unmingled worldliness , to blank infidelity . Else- where , the existing forms and institutions of religion are ...
... religion ? Some superficial observers have an idea that the tendencies of our system of society are all to irreligion , to unmingled worldliness , to blank infidelity . Else- where , the existing forms and institutions of religion are ...
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... religion is no part of the American character ; that faith in God and in the retributions of the eternal state , faith in the Bible , and faith in Jesus Christ , are never to be spoken of , except as they occur in certain decent forms ...
... religion is no part of the American character ; that faith in God and in the retributions of the eternal state , faith in the Bible , and faith in Jesus Christ , are never to be spoken of , except as they occur in certain decent forms ...
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... religion , the religion of the Christian Scriptures , one of the grand elements in the character of the American people ? -nay is it not the first of the constituent forces of the American civilization ? How can it be otherwise ? Is not ...
... religion , the religion of the Christian Scriptures , one of the grand elements in the character of the American people ? -nay is it not the first of the constituent forces of the American civilization ? How can it be otherwise ? Is not ...
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... religion . Litera- ture framed upon such a principle , will always be despised by a free , a grave , and active ... religious sentiment at the heart , but affecting to infuse into their works the sentiment of Christian faith out of ...
... religion . Litera- ture framed upon such a principle , will always be despised by a free , a grave , and active ... religious sentiment at the heart , but affecting to infuse into their works the sentiment of Christian faith out of ...
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Page 498 - Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen ; to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Page 362 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 161 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry; Abba, Father.
Page 406 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Page 426 - Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Page 274 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 425 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 406 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 488 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 80 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.