The Missionary Convention at Jerusalem: Or, An Exhibition of the Claims of the World to the GospelJohn S. Taylor, 1838 - 244 pages |
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Page vii
... employ the same style of address . They are rep- resented as urging rather what might be advanced on the points they advocate , than what persons under their circumstances would be qualified to adduce . The sole intention of the writer ...
... employ the same style of address . They are rep- resented as urging rather what might be advanced on the points they advocate , than what persons under their circumstances would be qualified to adduce . The sole intention of the writer ...
Page 35
... employed in promulgating the gospel among other nations . This preliminary work they believe to be an ample apology for not having preached the gospel to the heathen . Now the question is , how long have such opinions been entertained ...
... employed in promulgating the gospel among other nations . This preliminary work they believe to be an ample apology for not having preached the gospel to the heathen . Now the question is , how long have such opinions been entertained ...
Page 38
... I have visited ; I mean the legitimate reaction of missions connected with the promised reward of beneficence . If I were at liberty to employ the gospel for the exclusive advantage of the land of my earliest and strongest attachment.
... I have visited ; I mean the legitimate reaction of missions connected with the promised reward of beneficence . If I were at liberty to employ the gospel for the exclusive advantage of the land of my earliest and strongest attachment.
Page 41
... employ these boards , which society has been organized within twelve years , supports between seven and eight hundred labourers , and expends annually from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars . The Baptist denomination , which ...
... employ these boards , which society has been organized within twelve years , supports between seven and eight hundred labourers , and expends annually from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars . The Baptist denomination , which ...
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... employed not for our friends alone , but for all God's creatures , not simply to enrich the few whom we love , but to save those for whom Christ died . Had men not considered themselves proprietors of the gos- pel instead of stewards ...
... employed not for our friends alone , but for all God's creatures , not simply to enrich the few whom we love , but to save those for whom Christ died . Had men not considered themselves proprietors of the gos- pel instead of stewards ...
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Page 64 - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Page 15 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 170 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 47 - ... remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Page 15 - Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name; for thou only art holy : for all nations shall come and worship before thee : for thy judgments are made manifest.
Page 42 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 233 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 13 - ... delivered from the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son ; as having redemption through Christ's blood, and the forgiveness of sins.
Page 57 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Page 42 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.