Fletcher's Appeal to Matter of Fact & Common Sense: Or a Rational Demonstration of Man's Corrupt and Lost Estate, with the Address to Earnest Seeks for Salvation and an Appendix, to which is Now Added the Life of the Venerable Author, Compiled for this Work from the Most Authentic Source |
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... conversation was mo- dest , and his whole conduct marked with a degree of rec- titude , not usually to be found in early life . After Mr. Fletcher had gone through the usual course of study at the university of Geneva , it was the ...
... conversation was mo- dest , and his whole conduct marked with a degree of rec- titude , not usually to be found in early life . After Mr. Fletcher had gone through the usual course of study at the university of Geneva , it was the ...
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... conversation was deep , and full of the energy of faith on the part of the Countess ; as to me , I sat like Saul at the feet of Gamaliel . J. FLETCHER . ” The second was written in April following , and in THE REV . JOHN FLETCHER . 23.
... conversation was deep , and full of the energy of faith on the part of the Countess ; as to me , I sat like Saul at the feet of Gamaliel . J. FLETCHER . ” The second was written in April following , and in THE REV . JOHN FLETCHER . 23.
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... conversation and conduct . All of these , how- ever they might differ among themselves , were leagued together as the inveterate enemies of this venerable pas- tor . They wrested his words , they misrepresented his actions , and cast ...
... conversation and conduct . All of these , how- ever they might differ among themselves , were leagued together as the inveterate enemies of this venerable pas- tor . They wrested his words , they misrepresented his actions , and cast ...
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... conversation passed be- tween us . When I visited him in his sickness , he seemed tame as a wolf in a trap . O may God have turned him into a sheep in his last hours ! " Mr. Fletcher was wondrously skilled in adapting himself to the ...
... conversation passed be- tween us . When I visited him in his sickness , he seemed tame as a wolf in a trap . O may God have turned him into a sheep in his last hours ! " Mr. Fletcher was wondrously skilled in adapting himself to the ...
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... conversations were sermons . Even his disputations with infidels were full of instruction . We met with a gentle- man of fortune once on a journey , an excellent classical scholar , with whom he continued near a fortnight in an hotel ...
... conversations were sermons . Even his disputations with infidels were full of instruction . We met with a gentle- man of fortune once on a journey , an excellent classical scholar , with whom he continued near a fortnight in an hotel ...
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Page 115 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 109 - Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee.
Page 153 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 231 - But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 420 - Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness; "I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Page 423 - Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 136 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 355 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 35 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...