The Great Teacher: Characteristics of Our Lord's MinistryJ.S. and C. Adams, 1836 - 444 pages |
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Page ix
... in a variety of interesting lights . They are like those large bodies , which cannot be seen , on all sides , from any one station or those wide and deep waters , which cannot be effectually sounded , by heaving the lead once.
... in a variety of interesting lights . They are like those large bodies , which cannot be seen , on all sides , from any one station or those wide and deep waters , which cannot be effectually sounded , by heaving the lead once.
Page x
... light which is cast upon their characters and writings by their most gifted admirers . But no mere human character , or work is perfect . The profoundest depths of man's intellect can be fathomed . In the loftiest flights of his ...
... light which is cast upon their characters and writings by their most gifted admirers . But no mere human character , or work is perfect . The profoundest depths of man's intellect can be fathomed . In the loftiest flights of his ...
Page xi
... light and love would it throw around him . How eagerly should we listen to his instructions - with what absorbing interest should we study his character ; and with what emotions of wonder and gratitude should we follow him , as he went ...
... light and love would it throw around him . How eagerly should we listen to his instructions - with what absorbing interest should we study his character ; and with what emotions of wonder and gratitude should we follow him , as he went ...
Page xiii
... Light of men . ' ' And the Word was made flesh , and dwelt among us , and we beheld his glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father , full of grace and truth . ' Then we enquire of ' the man Christ Jesus ' himself , ' who art ...
... Light of men . ' ' And the Word was made flesh , and dwelt among us , and we beheld his glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father , full of grace and truth . ' Then we enquire of ' the man Christ Jesus ' himself , ' who art ...
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... light together , he wreathed them into a crown of glory for his own head . But , as if to compensate himself for the arrangement which required the temporary obscuration of his greatness he was emphatically his own subject . He himself ...
... light together , he wreathed them into a crown of glory for his own head . But , as if to compensate himself for the arrangement which required the temporary obscuration of his greatness he was emphatically his own subject . He himself ...
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Page 272 - Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known.
Page 352 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 328 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Page 44 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 232 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page xiv - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 262 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 301 - Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Page 260 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 296 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.