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... believe , the conviction impressed far and wide throughout the land , that last Assembly was pre - eminently the missionary Assembly of the Church . The Lord in his mercy grant that such a spirit may distinguish all our Assemblies ...
... believe , the conviction impressed far and wide throughout the land , that last Assembly was pre - eminently the missionary Assembly of the Church . The Lord in his mercy grant that such a spirit may distinguish all our Assemblies ...
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... believe , the most renowned Missionary in the world - one who , together with his excellent colleagues from India , did so much to exalt the tone and sweeten the temper of last Assembly -- I know not in what direction I could so ...
... believe , the most renowned Missionary in the world - one who , together with his excellent colleagues from India , did so much to exalt the tone and sweeten the temper of last Assembly -- I know not in what direction I could so ...
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... believe the God of providence to be identified with the God of grace , how can we but magnify His glorious name for having inspired our great forefathers with a resolute spirit of national independence - a spirit which , transmitted ...
... believe the God of providence to be identified with the God of grace , how can we but magnify His glorious name for having inspired our great forefathers with a resolute spirit of national independence - a spirit which , transmitted ...
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... believe that they were such as a wider sphere called for ; and he expressed his readiness cheerfully to go to the congrega- tion now calling him , if it should be the deliberate mind of the Church to send him . There was no foundation ...
... believe that they were such as a wider sphere called for ; and he expressed his readiness cheerfully to go to the congrega- tion now calling him , if it should be the deliberate mind of the Church to send him . There was no foundation ...
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... believe it will be generally found that those translations which have been of doubtful expediency have been carried out without the concur rence of the superior courts of the Church . I venture to think , that , for the most part , this ...
... believe it will be generally found that those translations which have been of doubtful expediency have been carried out without the concur rence of the superior courts of the Church . I venture to think , that , for the most part , this ...
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Page 149 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 150 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 140 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 145 - Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Page 149 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 144 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows by the water courses.
Page 148 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 149 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 138 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 154 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.