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... reason , as well as scripture , assures us , that the true qualifications must be found in character - and he who holds an office , on the ground of possessing right qualifications , holds it validly . Even in respect to the manner of ...
... reason , as well as scripture , assures us , that the true qualifications must be found in character - and he who holds an office , on the ground of possessing right qualifications , holds it validly . Even in respect to the manner of ...
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... reason . Then Congregationalists have their ordination solemnities . If it were of consequence to prove the fact , they are as well able as any other body of Christians , to prove that ordination has reached their ministers in an ...
... reason . Then Congregationalists have their ordination solemnities . If it were of consequence to prove the fact , they are as well able as any other body of Christians , to prove that ordination has reached their ministers in an ...
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... reason , feel a calm , sustained satisfaction as to the order of their ministry . It is marked neither by presumption , nor by confu- sion , nor by desecration . Its force of order has not failed under two centuries of administration ...
... reason , feel a calm , sustained satisfaction as to the order of their ministry . It is marked neither by presumption , nor by confu- sion , nor by desecration . Its force of order has not failed under two centuries of administration ...
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... reason of this probably has been that very small churches have been organized including no persons of such eminence in godliness , or of such standing in society , as to give them moral weight enough to influence and control others . It ...
... reason of this probably has been that very small churches have been organized including no persons of such eminence in godliness , or of such standing in society , as to give them moral weight enough to influence and control others . It ...
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... reason for supposing that Moses had any thing to do with the summit which now bears his name . It is three miles distant from the plain on which the Israelites must have stood , and hidden from it by the intervening peaks of the modern ...
... reason for supposing that Moses had any thing to do with the summit which now bears his name . It is three miles distant from the plain on which the Israelites must have stood , and hidden from it by the intervening peaks of the modern ...
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Page 241 - I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 372 - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Page 165 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 309 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever : for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Page 365 - ... remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Page 309 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 151 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 694 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 217 - Happy art thou, 0 Israel : — who is like unto thee, 0 people saved by the Lord, The shield of thy help, — and who is the sword of thy excellency ! And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 288 - Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name; for thou only art holy : for all nations shall come and worship before thee : for thy judgments are made manifest.