The Christian Ambassador, Volumes 3-4Richard Davies, 1865 |
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... Testament and in the New . The idea was not an invention , or a theory , or a hope : it was a realised notion , realised in several instances , but most gloriously in the resurrection of Christ , which is here alluded to as the model ...
... Testament and in the New . The idea was not an invention , or a theory , or a hope : it was a realised notion , realised in several instances , but most gloriously in the resurrection of Christ , which is here alluded to as the model ...
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... Testament was in all probability in the same style ; only the cloud is there described in more animated language in the bold license of Hebrew poetry . " And it came to pass , as they still went on , and talked , that behold there ...
... Testament was in all probability in the same style ; only the cloud is there described in more animated language in the bold license of Hebrew poetry . " And it came to pass , as they still went on , and talked , that behold there ...
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... Testament Scriptures are almost wholly silent respecting the relation of the Christian minister to politics , unless we regard as an exception the instruc- * Substance of a paper read before the Preachers ' Association at Sunderland ...
... Testament Scriptures are almost wholly silent respecting the relation of the Christian minister to politics , unless we regard as an exception the instruc- * Substance of a paper read before the Preachers ' Association at Sunderland ...
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... Testament , par- ticularly in the discourses of Christ and in the life of Paul ; but as the question presents itself now - a - days , there is little hope of settling it satisfactorily , unless we exercise a free judgment upon it ...
... Testament , par- ticularly in the discourses of Christ and in the life of Paul ; but as the question presents itself now - a - days , there is little hope of settling it satisfactorily , unless we exercise a free judgment upon it ...
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... Testament . There is no hesitation to give the lie to the positive averments of Holy Writ , and to affirm that to be right which God says is wrong . The Bible is of no more account , when it contravenes the judgment or wishes of the ...
... Testament . There is no hesitation to give the lie to the positive averments of Holy Writ , and to affirm that to be right which God says is wrong . The Bible is of no more account , when it contravenes the judgment or wishes of the ...
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Page 22 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Page 186 - And Jesus answering said unto them, " Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 186 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Page 110 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 16 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God ; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our LORD : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 251 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 187 - Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Page 223 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Page 145 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 322 - Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.