The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate1861 |
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... look back upon the sins of our youth , this rises up as one of the most over- whelming . Amidst the buoyant spirits of our early days , and the cheerfulness of home , and the freshness of our first affections , where was God ? What ...
... look back upon the sins of our youth , this rises up as one of the most over- whelming . Amidst the buoyant spirits of our early days , and the cheerfulness of home , and the freshness of our first affections , where was God ? What ...
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... look , and voice , and tone , and character of Jesus eminently calculated to command and to impress . His conversation , His teaching , His expositions , never could be forgotten . Yet the mere moral and physical effects of this ...
... look , and voice , and tone , and character of Jesus eminently calculated to command and to impress . His conversation , His teaching , His expositions , never could be forgotten . Yet the mere moral and physical effects of this ...
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... look on the sacred delineations at a distance . We saw clearly , and perhaps vividly , the occurrences related in the Bible : the import of the sacred narrative was unfolded , and it grew life - like , and became familiar , as we gazed ...
... look on the sacred delineations at a distance . We saw clearly , and perhaps vividly , the occurrences related in the Bible : the import of the sacred narrative was unfolded , and it grew life - like , and became familiar , as we gazed ...
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... look on scripture scenes at a distance , but we actually live amongst them : their vicissitudes of climate , the changing aspects of their sky , the hues and shadows of their landscape , the objects seen by the men of scripture , the ...
... look on scripture scenes at a distance , but we actually live amongst them : their vicissitudes of climate , the changing aspects of their sky , the hues and shadows of their landscape , the objects seen by the men of scripture , the ...
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... look from our station on Sulkhad . Another and very diffe- rent prospect spreads out before us on the north - east . This half ( speaking roughly ) of the region in question presents an aspect utterly sterile and repulsive , and , in ...
... look from our station on Sulkhad . Another and very diffe- rent prospect spreads out before us on the north - east . This half ( speaking roughly ) of the region in question presents an aspect utterly sterile and repulsive , and , in ...
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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.