The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
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St. Paul told the Corinthians , ~ ' We , then , as workers together with him , beseech you also , that receive not the grace of God in vain ! ' – ye and finally , St. Stephen rebuked the Jews in this manner - Ye do always resist the ...
St. Paul told the Corinthians , ~ ' We , then , as workers together with him , beseech you also , that receive not the grace of God in vain ! ' – ye and finally , St. Stephen rebuked the Jews in this manner - Ye do always resist the ...
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... his converts : " We then as workers together with him ( Christ ) beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God ... ye may obtain : ' - ' fight the good fight of faith : lay hold on eternal life , whereunto thou art also called .
... his converts : " We then as workers together with him ( Christ ) beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God ... ye may obtain : ' - ' fight the good fight of faith : lay hold on eternal life , whereunto thou art also called .
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Page 126 - 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 383 - 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 142 - 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 224 - 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 135 - 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 124 - 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 132 - 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 383 - 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 135 - 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 229 - 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.
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| Title | The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
| Author | George Wilkins |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1826 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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