Extracts from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of AmericaR. Aitken, 1817 |
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Page 291 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 119 - a famine, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for -water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And even in the midst of gospel privileges, we behold very many and very large portions of our Church in a state of deplorable
Page 60 - they will not hold their peace, and for 'Jerusalem's sake they -will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 243 - of her ; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early." " God is known in her palaces for a refuge." " According to thy name, O God,
Page 17 - May the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burnetii ; and all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our
Page 61 - Holy Spirit, that the religion of Jesus Christ, in its purity and power, may be every where revived; that the interests of order, truth, and righteousness may every where abound and prevail/; and that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all godliness and honesty.
Page 243 - Here is a Verification of the oracle, " the children of thy servants shall continue* and their seed shall be established before thee." And here are the fountains whose streams, confluent, and yet pellucid, smooth, and noiseless, make glad the city of our God. May the propitious influence of these revivals extend with rapidity to every Seminary in the Republic ; that the schools of the prophets may never
Page 53 - The cause of Zion lies near the heart of every sincere follower of the Redeemer. He deserves not the name of a disciple, who cannot join the Psalmist in saying, If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. In the
Page 121 - Zion ! for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. It is
Page 231 - For I am determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.