A memoir of the rev. Legh RichmondR.B. Seeley and W. Burnside; sold, 1828 - 667 pages |
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... less due to the subject itself , than to his own personal feelings . In the present edition he has endeavoured to introduce a few improvements , by compressing some parts of the Memoir , and amplifying others . Grateful for the kind ...
... less due to the subject itself , than to his own personal feelings . In the present edition he has endeavoured to introduce a few improvements , by compressing some parts of the Memoir , and amplifying others . Grateful for the kind ...
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... less due to the present than to succeeding generations . Biography , indeed , has usually selected , as the subject of its memoirs , the lives of heroes and statesmen , in preference to the milder though more useful virtues of the pious ...
... less due to the present than to succeeding generations . Biography , indeed , has usually selected , as the subject of its memoirs , the lives of heroes and statesmen , in preference to the milder though more useful virtues of the pious ...
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... less real , because they are eternal ? Are its victories less interesting , because their object is to contract the limits of death and sin , and to extend the empire of the Son of God ? It is no small praise to the age in which we live ...
... less real , because they are eternal ? Are its victories less interesting , because their object is to contract the limits of death and sin , and to extend the empire of the Son of God ? It is no small praise to the age in which we live ...
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... less degree of earnestness , where the claims are precisely the same , and the obligations to fulfil them are equally binding ? If he felt the need within , of a more operative principle of divine grace , as the only genuine source of ...
... less degree of earnestness , where the claims are precisely the same , and the obligations to fulfil them are equally binding ? If he felt the need within , of a more operative principle of divine grace , as the only genuine source of ...
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... less avowedly professed , by every candidate in the form and ceremony prescribed by our own church for ordination - that on this occasion he is solemnly asked , whether he trusts that he is inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost , to take ...
... less avowedly professed , by every candidate in the form and ceremony prescribed by our own church for ordination - that on this occasion he is solemnly asked , whether he trusts that he is inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost , to take ...
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Page 265 - How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 627 - That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Page 144 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 93 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a li vely faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 113 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
Page 509 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 252 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 642 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 146 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 209 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.