The Assembly's Shorter Catechism: Illustrated by Appropriate AnecdotesR. Carter & brothers, 1849 - 180 pages |
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... Bishop Butler lay on his death - bed , he called for his chaplain , and said , " Though I have endeavored to avoid sin , and to please God , to the utmost of my power , yet , from the conscious- ness of perpetual infirmities , I am ...
... Bishop Butler lay on his death - bed , he called for his chaplain , and said , " Though I have endeavored to avoid sin , and to please God , to the utmost of my power , yet , from the conscious- ness of perpetual infirmities , I am ...
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... Bishop ; " and I am surprised , that though I have read that Scripture a thousand times over , I never felt its virtue till this moment ; and now I die happy . " Several learned men tried to persuade a great scholar to believe in ...
... Bishop ; " and I am surprised , that though I have read that Scripture a thousand times over , I never felt its virtue till this moment ; and now I die happy . " Several learned men tried to persuade a great scholar to believe in ...
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... bishop replied to this purpose : " I have not written , and yet I cannot charge myself with a breach of promise ; for I began to write but when I came to treat of the new crea- ture which God formeth by his Spirit in every re- generate ...
... bishop replied to this purpose : " I have not written , and yet I cannot charge myself with a breach of promise ; for I began to write but when I came to treat of the new crea- ture which God formeth by his Spirit in every re- generate ...
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... bishop consented to do , on condition that he would not discover him to any other . Mr. Ruth- erford furnished the bishop with a suit of his own clothes , and early in the morning he went into the fields ; the other followed him , and ...
... bishop consented to do , on condition that he would not discover him to any other . Mr. Ruth- erford furnished the bishop with a suit of his own clothes , and early in the morning he went into the fields ; the other followed him , and ...
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... Bishop Warburton , expressed his offence publicly , by saying , that he came to chap- el to hear the praises of God and not his own . A gentleman in England , who had a chapel attached to his house , was visited by a person from London ...
... Bishop Warburton , expressed his offence publicly , by saying , that he came to chap- el to hear the praises of God and not his own . A gentleman in England , who had a chapel attached to his house , was visited by a person from London ...
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Page 69 - I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 19 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 15 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 98 - A. The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God's glory, and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment.
Page 168 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 138 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Page 36 - Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary...
Page 76 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 7 - I have a short and plain answer: let him study the Holy Scripture, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life : it has God for its author, Salvation for its end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
Page 155 - In the second petition, which is, "Thy kingdom come" we pray that Satan's kingdom may be destroyed, and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it, and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.