...short, it is a grace that purifies the heart, that works by love, that overcomes the world; it has subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths. of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness has made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned...

...slay me, yet will I trust in him." This is not obstinacy — no ; it is faith ; that faith which " has subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness been made strong, waxed valiant in fight," and will...

...latter : — or, in plain terms, and to come to specific instances, that the English Church — pursuing those ingenuous researches that are on foot among...valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens." — The partisan, we say, in his admiration of what was effected by the Reformers, regards...

...partizan, controvertist, and zealous polemic, for example, delights to contemplate the giant energy arid moral valour of those champions of Truth, who, in...kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of liens, quenched the violence of fire, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the...

...earth," but they " obeyed;" they " went out," they " chose affliction with the people of God :" they " stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, waxed valiant in fight ; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves...

...here : even though you had done all you did in your own strength, and not by his. What though you " subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, through weakness were made strong, put to flight the armies of the aliens ?" Heb. xi. 33, 34. All these...

...individualities as those of Zuingle, Calvin, and Knox, who, also, like the mighty names of the old dispensation, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, waxed valiant in fight, and out * Park, Memoir of Emmons, p. 423. of weakness were made strong. Their attacks on Romish error and...

...Abel, and Enoch, and Abraham, and Moses, and a multitude of others, that great host of olden time, who subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, had trial of mockings, scourgings, and imprisonment, and of whom, in a word, the world was not worthy,...

...consoling, and sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, making us partakers of that precious faith which has " wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire," yea, has enabled the martyrs to triumph in the flames. Who could stand at such a time in his own strength...

...makes a man like another Samson, both for strength and courage. The saints of old, through faith, " subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to...