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... learned , and wisest men of whom the church of England has had to boast . It has maintained , through storm and sunshine , the doctrines of the gospel , and enforced a higher tone of Christian practice than the world has ever been ...
... learned , and wisest men of whom the church of England has had to boast . It has maintained , through storm and sunshine , the doctrines of the gospel , and enforced a higher tone of Christian practice than the world has ever been ...
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... learned from those scenes wherein , by a mighty hand and stretched - out arm , God rescued his oppressed church from Egyptian bondage . The Passover was to be the means of maintaining a devout remembrance of this deliverance : " This ...
... learned from those scenes wherein , by a mighty hand and stretched - out arm , God rescued his oppressed church from Egyptian bondage . The Passover was to be the means of maintaining a devout remembrance of this deliverance : " This ...
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... learned their works . " And their children were plundered and subjected by the very people they had defeated . This same region was among those which had to be recovered , and restored to Israel , by David in his conquests . And we must ...
... learned their works . " And their children were plundered and subjected by the very people they had defeated . This same region was among those which had to be recovered , and restored to Israel , by David in his conquests . And we must ...
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... learned , wealthy , and of foreign blood , with whom it was the policy of Rome to crowd our luxu- rious abbeys and priories ; while ladies of the highest rank were easily induced to take upon themselves the control of nunneries and ...
... learned , wealthy , and of foreign blood , with whom it was the policy of Rome to crowd our luxu- rious abbeys and priories ; while ladies of the highest rank were easily induced to take upon themselves the control of nunneries and ...
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... learned to love as the Swiss mountaineer loves his native Alps , or the Highlander the heath - covered hills of Caledonia . From time immemorial she has been the " barren ocean , " the " restless deep , " the " waste of waters . " Our ...
... learned to love as the Swiss mountaineer loves his native Alps , or the Highlander the heath - covered hills of Caledonia . From time immemorial she has been the " barren ocean , " the " restless deep , " the " waste of waters . " Our ...
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Page 449 - 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 469 - 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 294 - 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 468 - 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 281 - 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.
Page 166 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.