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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... limited knowledge of the subject , the strange belief that it stands in hostile array against their personal inter- ests and the spiritual welfare of their coun- tries . So long have they possessed the inestimable blessings of divine ...
... limited knowledge of the subject , the strange belief that it stands in hostile array against their personal inter- ests and the spiritual welfare of their coun- tries . So long have they possessed the inestimable blessings of divine ...
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... limited and evidently selfish operations should have been mistaken for the impartial beneficence enjoined in our Lord's command . Who is right , inquired he , or are all right ? Is the restriction which each one has made in favour of ...
... limited and evidently selfish operations should have been mistaken for the impartial beneficence enjoined in our Lord's command . Who is right , inquired he , or are all right ? Is the restriction which each one has made in favour of ...
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... limited and mixed up with a great deal of error , are we on that account to deny that the Spirit's agency can extend to them ? We know that this gracious Being does com- municate his influences where there is very great ignorance even ...
... limited and mixed up with a great deal of error , are we on that account to deny that the Spirit's agency can extend to them ? We know that this gracious Being does com- municate his influences where there is very great ignorance even ...
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... limited to man . Here is the mistake of many . They impugn God's justice , when his justice never prompted salvation for any . They arraign his mercy , when the very idea of mercy implies the absence of all claim on the part of those to ...
... limited to man . Here is the mistake of many . They impugn God's justice , when his justice never prompted salvation for any . They arraign his mercy , when the very idea of mercy implies the absence of all claim on the part of those to ...
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... limited , only three or four having ever been discovered , and these are of so doubtful a character , that it does not appear safe to consider them an exception to the rule mentioned . That the change of feelings they are represented to ...
... limited , only three or four having ever been discovered , and these are of so doubtful a character , that it does not appear safe to consider them an exception to the rule mentioned . That the change of feelings they are represented to ...
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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.