The Christian Observer, Volume 60Hatchard and Company, 1861 - Religion |
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PREFACE . If we could hope that our pages , in the last twelve months , have fairly represented the progress of events and the course of opinion on religious subjects , we might flatter ourselves that we sat down to write a posthumous ...
PREFACE . If we could hope that our pages , in the last twelve months , have fairly represented the progress of events and the course of opinion on religious subjects , we might flatter ourselves that we sat down to write a posthumous ...
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... they shall not prevail . We labour for the church of England with a good hope , -for the church of Christ , with a perfect confidence , that all will be well at last . CONTENTS . Page 4. Some Comments upon Mr. Goodwin's View vi PREFACE .
... they shall not prevail . We labour for the church of England with a good hope , -for the church of Christ , with a perfect confidence , that all will be well at last . CONTENTS . Page 4. Some Comments upon Mr. Goodwin's View vi PREFACE .
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... hope , and expectation , and confiding trust . But this we overlook : human agency , second causes , personal effort , self - dependence , come in between us and God . Backsliding Israel at length reached this point , that they knew not ...
... hope , and expectation , and confiding trust . But this we overlook : human agency , second causes , personal effort , self - dependence , come in between us and God . Backsliding Israel at length reached this point , that they knew not ...
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... Hope Grants - to do the work . So , in a meeting where we want to attract and influence intelligent educated people , dull and heavy speakers ought not to be thrust upon the audience . But we believe the chief cause of failure , is the ...
... Hope Grants - to do the work . So , in a meeting where we want to attract and influence intelligent educated people , dull and heavy speakers ought not to be thrust upon the audience . But we believe the chief cause of failure , is the ...
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... hope , extinct - if any present themselves again , they ought not to be accepted . But it is possible for a deputation , without the excuse of the wild scenery of Wast - Water , or the fresh breezes of Helvellyn , to go through his work ...
... hope , extinct - if any present themselves again , they ought not to be accepted . But it is possible for a deputation , without the excuse of the wild scenery of Wast - Water , or the fresh breezes of Helvellyn , to go through his work ...
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Page 451 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 471 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear : For our God is a consuming fire.
Page 726 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 790 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not...
Page 751 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 296 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 595 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 479 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Page 470 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 283 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.