Thirty-four Letters to a Son in the MinistryMark H. Newman, 1845 - 352 pages |
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... begin among strangers ; and when you have become a little accustomed to speak- ing before a congregation , you will be more at ease , and do yourself and the great cause which you have espoused more justice at home . It is not the place ...
... begin among strangers ; and when you have become a little accustomed to speak- ing before a congregation , you will be more at ease , and do yourself and the great cause which you have espoused more justice at home . It is not the place ...
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... begin to feel a slight head - ache before the task is accomplished , or you have a polite invitation to dine , which takes up the whole afternoon and evening , and so the sermon is put off till to - morrow ; and it is well , if two , or ...
... begin to feel a slight head - ache before the task is accomplished , or you have a polite invitation to dine , which takes up the whole afternoon and evening , and so the sermon is put off till to - morrow ; and it is well , if two , or ...
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... begin on a higher key than you can hold out - not to create expecta- tions which you cannot come up to . It is always bad policy to strike twelve the first time . Allowing that you could always keep it up , it would be only twelve ...
... begin on a higher key than you can hold out - not to create expecta- tions which you cannot come up to . It is always bad policy to strike twelve the first time . Allowing that you could always keep it up , it would be only twelve ...
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... begin on a higher key , than you have reason to think you can hold out ; for by so doing , you will create demands and expectations , which it may cost you your life to meet . Even if I thought you would be able to de- liver three good ...
... begin on a higher key , than you have reason to think you can hold out ; for by so doing , you will create demands and expectations , which it may cost you your life to meet . Even if I thought you would be able to de- liver three good ...
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... nounce their false hopes and begin anew . In But if not , if they should still cling to them and perish , you will " deliver your own soul . " Very affectionately , & c . MY DEAR E. LETTER XI . As your stated preaching 90 LETTERS TO A SON.
... nounce their false hopes and begin anew . In But if not , if they should still cling to them and perish , you will " deliver your own soul . " Very affectionately , & c . MY DEAR E. LETTER XI . As your stated preaching 90 LETTERS TO A SON.
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Page 130 - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 42 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 157 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water : thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 157 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 95 - These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 88 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 38 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Page 131 - And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you ; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh : that they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and do them : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Page 160 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Page 88 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...