The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
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... father , who was a man in power , that if my inclination led me to the church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur- pose , and I was placed in ...
... father , who was a man in power , that if my inclination led me to the church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur- pose , and I was placed in ...
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... Father , the Word , and the Holy Ghost , and these three are one . ' I find it upon investigation to be true , that ... Fathers before the first four centuries , nor received as genuine by all , even in the sixth . " + * See Quarterly ...
... Father , the Word , and the Holy Ghost , and these three are one . ' I find it upon investigation to be true , that ... Fathers before the first four centuries , nor received as genuine by all , even in the sixth . " + * See Quarterly ...
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... Father , the Prince of Peace .'- And what think you of Christ ; whose son is he ? ' - is a question that , surely , never could have been asked , had it been clear that he was merely the issue of Joseph and Mary . But even if it were ...
... Father , the Prince of Peace .'- And what think you of Christ ; whose son is he ? ' - is a question that , surely , never could have been asked , had it been clear that he was merely the issue of Joseph and Mary . But even if it were ...
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... father's business ? ' Not the business of Joseph , his re- puted father ; for he had left him to resort to the Temple , where he was found occupied in hearing the expounders of the Law of Moses , and in asking them questions . — Not ...
... father's business ? ' Not the business of Joseph , his re- puted father ; for he had left him to resort to the Temple , where he was found occupied in hearing the expounders of the Law of Moses , and in asking them questions . — Not ...
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... Father and mankind , and comply with that which is required of them . - Besides this , is he not de- clared to be the Son of God ? " " Yes , " answered he , " in the same manner that righteous persons are said to be the * children ...
... Father and mankind , and comply with that which is required of them . - Besides this , is he not de- clared to be the Son of God ? " " Yes , " answered he , " in the same manner that righteous persons are said to be the * children ...
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Page 130 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 387 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 228 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 139 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 128 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 136 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 387 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 139 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 233 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.