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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... nature in its present weakness to mag- nify places in which we have a personal inter- est , and to overlook others . A few shipwrecked sailors came to my coun- try a short time ago , who gave us some account of their sufferings . Among ...
... nature in its present weakness to mag- nify places in which we have a personal inter- est , and to overlook others . A few shipwrecked sailors came to my coun- try a short time ago , who gave us some account of their sufferings . Among ...
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... nature of the missionary enterprise , which is adapted to produce the most salutary effect upon the churches . It is pre - eminently conducive to the greatest develope- ment of those principles which constitute the chief attributes of ...
... nature of the missionary enterprise , which is adapted to produce the most salutary effect upon the churches . It is pre - eminently conducive to the greatest develope- ment of those principles which constitute the chief attributes of ...
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... natural , but rational and scriptural , that I should care more for my parents than for distant relatives — for my immediate circle of friends than for strangers for my countrymen than for for- eigners . We feel that the providence of ...
... natural , but rational and scriptural , that I should care more for my parents than for distant relatives — for my immediate circle of friends than for strangers for my countrymen than for for- eigners . We feel that the providence of ...
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... nature it must oppose . I do not see how the oft - repeated adage , " charity begins at home , ” can be made to subserve the purpose of this argument . Our friend who has just spoken believes that they to whom the gospel has been ...
... nature it must oppose . I do not see how the oft - repeated adage , " charity begins at home , ” can be made to subserve the purpose of this argument . Our friend who has just spoken believes that they to whom the gospel has been ...
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... nature the things contained in the law , these having not the law are a law unto themselves ; " and " in every nation , he that feareth God and worketh righteous- ness , is accepted of him . " And even admitting that the heathen do not ...
... nature the things contained in the law , these having not the law are a law unto themselves ; " and " in every nation , he that feareth God and worketh righteous- ness , is accepted of him . " And even admitting that the heathen do not ...
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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.