Thirty-four Letters to a Son in the MinistryMark H. Newman, 1845 - 352 pages |
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... interest , on account of the relations which we sustained to each other during the Collegiate stage of their preparation for the great work to which God has called them . And frankly to confess , that nothing could gratify me more ...
... interest , on account of the relations which we sustained to each other during the Collegiate stage of their preparation for the great work to which God has called them . And frankly to confess , that nothing could gratify me more ...
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... Interest in Schools and Colleges . 256 LETTER XXIX . Revivals of Religion - Their Desirableness - How Promot- ed - Preaching --Visiting -- Holding Meetings - Four Days ' Meetings - When a Revival has Begun . 263 LETTER XXX . Revivals ...
... Interest in Schools and Colleges . 256 LETTER XXIX . Revivals of Religion - Their Desirableness - How Promot- ed - Preaching --Visiting -- Holding Meetings - Four Days ' Meetings - When a Revival has Begun . 263 LETTER XXX . Revivals ...
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... interest and profit , as a messenger of the living God . Your message will be just the same , as if you had already passed under the consecrating hands of the presbytery . There is not one gospel for the li- centiate to preach , and ...
... interest and profit , as a messenger of the living God . Your message will be just the same , as if you had already passed under the consecrating hands of the presbytery . There is not one gospel for the li- centiate to preach , and ...
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... interests of society . And I hope you will never , like some others , think it your duty to engage upon the plan of retaining , as your salary , all the money you can collect , up to a certain sum , and then paying over the surplus , if ...
... interests of society . And I hope you will never , like some others , think it your duty to engage upon the plan of retaining , as your salary , all the money you can collect , up to a certain sum , and then paying over the surplus , if ...
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... interests of religion . I have one suggestion more , and only one , to make in answer to the question , what you shall do after leaving the Seminary , and before you enter upon the pastoral charge . If you prefer it , I have no doubt ...
... interests of religion . I have one suggestion more , and only one , to make in answer to the question , what you shall do after leaving the Seminary , and before you enter upon the pastoral charge . If you prefer it , I have no doubt ...
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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...