The Presbyterian Church Throughout the World: From the Earliest to the Present Times, in a Series of Biographical and Historical SketchesGardiner Spring Plumley C.C. Wick & Company, 1876 - 792 pages |
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Page 520 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Page 393 - But they constrained him saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.
Page 432 - Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power...
Page 602 - Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age ; They shall be fat and flourishing ; to shew that the LORD is upright : He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 456 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 535 - We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Page 462 - Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ, imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Page 456 - One body and one spirit, even as 'we' are called in one hope of 'our' calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in ' us
Page 535 - We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth...
Page 462 - There are three persons in the Godhead ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one God, - the same in substance, equal in power and glory.