The Assembly's Shorter Catechism: Illustrated by Appropriate AnecdotesR. Carter & brothers, 1849 - 180 pages |
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... fear God , honor the king , and love your country . " A poor boy , going to a Sabbath School , was met by a companion , who invited him to play the truant ; but he absolutely refused , and went to school . When this came to be known ...
... fear God , honor the king , and love your country . " A poor boy , going to a Sabbath School , was met by a companion , who invited him to play the truant ; but he absolutely refused , and went to school . When this came to be known ...
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... Fear ye not , therefore , ye are of more value than many sparrows . " Queen Mary having dealt severely with the pro- testants in England , about the latter end of her reign , signed a commission to take the same course with them in ...
... Fear ye not , therefore , ye are of more value than many sparrows . " Queen Mary having dealt severely with the pro- testants in England , about the latter end of her reign , signed a commission to take the same course with them in ...
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... fear of that death which the laws of country inflict upon the crime ? " " Sir , " re- joined the servant , looking sternly at his master , " What is that to you , if I had a mind to venture that ? you and your wicked companions had ...
... fear of that death which the laws of country inflict upon the crime ? " " Sir , " re- joined the servant , looking sternly at his master , " What is that to you , if I had a mind to venture that ? you and your wicked companions had ...
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... justly under the curse of God's righteous law . and exposed to everlasting misery . " - Under the tormenting fears of eternal wrath , he sometimes wished him- self transformed into a stone , or one of the 3 * 29 am. ...
... justly under the curse of God's righteous law . and exposed to everlasting misery . " - Under the tormenting fears of eternal wrath , he sometimes wished him- self transformed into a stone , or one of the 3 * 29 am. ...
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... fear to be brought before the judgement seat of Christ ? " " On January last , " said a pious father in writing to his friends , " I dreamed that the day of judg ment was come . I saw the Judge on his great white throne , and all ...
... fear to be brought before the judgement seat of Christ ? " " On January last , " said a pious father in writing to his friends , " I dreamed that the day of judg ment was come . I saw the Judge on his great white throne , and all ...
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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.