The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... preached on a monthly day of solemn prayer ; as also of your desire to be more perfectly acquainted with it , by some of us on the spot : And having been since informed by my uncle Williams , that you desire me to undertake it ; I would ...
... preached on a monthly day of solemn prayer ; as also of your desire to be more perfectly acquainted with it , by some of us on the spot : And having been since informed by my uncle Williams , that you desire me to undertake it ; I would ...
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... preached on the sabbath before the lecture , to shew the evil tendency of the practice , and to persuade them to reform it ; and it was urged on heads of families , that it should be a thing agreed upon among them , to govern their ...
... preached on the sabbath before the lecture , to shew the evil tendency of the practice , and to persuade them to reform it ; and it was urged on heads of families , that it should be a thing agreed upon among them , to govern their ...
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... preached publicly on that occa- sion ) much affected many young people . This was followed with another death of a young married woman , who had been con- siderably exercised in mind , about the salvation of her soul , before she was ...
... preached publicly on that occa- sion ) much affected many young people . This was followed with another death of a young married woman , who had been con- siderably exercised in mind , about the salvation of her soul , before she was ...
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... preached ; some weeping with sorrow and distress , others with joy and love , others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbors . Our public praises were then greatly enlivened ; God was then served in our psalmody , in some ...
... preached ; some weeping with sorrow and distress , others with joy and love , others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbors . Our public praises were then greatly enlivened ; God was then served in our psalmody , in some ...
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... preaching is a new thing ; that it seems to them they never heard preaching be- fore ; that the Bible is a new book : They find there new chapters , new psalms , new histories , because they see them in a new light . Here was a ...
... preaching is a new thing ; that it seems to them they never heard preaching be- fore ; that the Bible is a new book : They find there new chapters , new psalms , new histories , because they see them in a new light . Here was a ...
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Page 439 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell ; and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Page 352 - ARISE, shine ; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people : but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee ; and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 147 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 410 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 357 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Page 342 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed, and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Page 352 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 111 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Page 342 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day...
Page 255 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God. 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.