The Chinese Repository, Volume 17

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Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams
proprietors, 1848 - China
 

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Page 20 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me...
Page 83 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 613 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us, 'T is Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 67 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 20 - God spake all these words, saying, i AM the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. THOU shall have none other gods before me.
Page 302 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 598 - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth.
Page 227 - ... or ever had been ; and they repeated after me an invocation of the gods and of your image, which for this purpose I had ordered to be brought with the images of the deities. They performed sacred rites with wine and frankincense and execrated Christ, none of which things I am told, a real christian can ever be compelled to do.
Page 396 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 124 - It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few ; and with the God of heaven it is all one to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company ; For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host, but strength cometh from heaven.

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