The United Presbyterian MagazineWilliam Oliphant and Sons, 1865 |
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... mind has plainly brought it all together ; that one plan pervades it ; that one aim is steadily pursued in it ; that , therefore , in its present shape , it must have had one author , on whose authority the whole is to be received . The ...
... mind has plainly brought it all together ; that one plan pervades it ; that one aim is steadily pursued in it ; that , therefore , in its present shape , it must have had one author , on whose authority the whole is to be received . The ...
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... mind respecting dubious or sinful paths , as the pleasures of these are eagerly followed , and as they are reviewed under the shadows of the judgment - seat ! Acts of conformity to the world , which you palliated or justified when they ...
... mind respecting dubious or sinful paths , as the pleasures of these are eagerly followed , and as they are reviewed under the shadows of the judgment - seat ! Acts of conformity to the world , which you palliated or justified when they ...
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... mind in view of your deep unworthiness , what longing of heart for perfect obedience and conformity to God ! And what are these spiritual graces and affections but springs of heavenly hope ? Your soul in the valley of Achor is drawn ...
... mind in view of your deep unworthiness , what longing of heart for perfect obedience and conformity to God ! And what are these spiritual graces and affections but springs of heavenly hope ? Your soul in the valley of Achor is drawn ...
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... mind the events of those dreary ages in which our rude ancestors in this island lived and died , must have an interest some- what proportioned to our distance from their times . But to a Christian mind there must ever be a special ...
... mind the events of those dreary ages in which our rude ancestors in this island lived and died , must have an interest some- what proportioned to our distance from their times . But to a Christian mind there must ever be a special ...
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... mind that these stormy northern seas were traversed in the tiniest craft , without chart or compass , by men actuated solely by religious zeal , we have ample evidence of the power which this great principle is calculated to exercise ...
... mind that these stormy northern seas were traversed in the tiniest craft , without chart or compass , by men actuated solely by religious zeal , we have ample evidence of the power which this great principle is calculated to exercise ...
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Page 395 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 16 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 4 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make 1 Exod.
Page 4 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be...
Page 4 - But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 171 - Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas...
Page 115 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 13 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 520 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 551 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.