A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh: With Selections from His ... Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, &c. ...Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1831 - 620 pages |
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... holy temper of Him " who increased in wisdom and stature , in favour with God and man . " It is stated by one of the few surviving companions of his boyhood , that it was their custom , perhaps in the spirit of a very natural desire to ...
... holy temper of Him " who increased in wisdom and stature , in favour with God and man . " It is stated by one of the few surviving companions of his boyhood , that it was their custom , perhaps in the spirit of a very natural desire to ...
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... holy enthusiasm with which , in after - life , he was wont to speak of the sacramental occasions on Stitchell Brae , will be particularly noticed in a subsequent part of the memoir . The congregation of Stitchell was at that pe- riod ...
... holy enthusiasm with which , in after - life , he was wont to speak of the sacramental occasions on Stitchell Brae , will be particularly noticed in a subsequent part of the memoir . The congregation of Stitchell was at that pe- riod ...
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... holy ministry , from the different bodies of dissenters in Scotland , pass through the same course of educa- tion as those who are trained up for the national church . This state of things has been of incal- culable advantage in ...
... holy ministry , from the different bodies of dissenters in Scotland , pass through the same course of educa- tion as those who are trained up for the national church . This state of things has been of incal- culable advantage in ...
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... Holy Scriptures . The presbyteries of the Secession require at- tendance at the University for four years before they take a young man on trial , in order to his admission to the study of theology ; and he is then subjected to a strict ...
... Holy Scriptures . The presbyteries of the Secession require at- tendance at the University for four years before they take a young man on trial , in order to his admission to the study of theology ; and he is then subjected to a strict ...
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... holy ministry solely or chiefly to serve some secular , some selfish design . While I would be far from setting limits to the Divine sovereignty , I am afraid it but seldom happens that a person is converted after he has become a ...
... holy ministry solely or chiefly to serve some secular , some selfish design . While I would be far from setting limits to the Divine sovereignty , I am afraid it but seldom happens that a person is converted after he has become a ...
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Page 566 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 200 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 317 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 558 - O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 390 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 487 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll. For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the...
Page 120 - If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
Page 529 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 270 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 535 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.