An Impartial and Succinct History of the Rise, Declension and Revival of the Church of Christ: From the Birth of Our Saviour to the Present Time ...Abner Neal, 1807 - Church history |
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Page 324 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 406 - Huntingdon was exceedingly struck with a sentiment she uttered, " that since she had " known and believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for " life and salvation, she had been as happy as an
Page 408 - Scripture, brought so many arguments from the Articles and Homilies, and so plainly and faithfully urged upon him the awful responsibility of his station under the Great Head of the Church, that his temper was ruffled, and he rose up in haste to depart, bitterly lamenting that he had ever laid his hands upon George Whitefield, to whom he attributed the change wrought in her Ladyship. "My Lord...
Page 102 - God willing to shew his wrath, &c. And the apostle did not write this to have it stifled among a few persons, and buried in a corner ; but wrote it to the Christians at Rome ; which was, in effect, bringing this doctrine upon the stage of the whole world ; stamping an universal imprimatur upon it; and publishing it to believers at large, throughout the earth.
Page 132 - Corinthians, when he tells them that faith stands not " in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God,
Page 408 - mark my words : when you come upon your dying bed, that will be one of the few ordinations you will reflect upon with complacence.
Page 409 - The bishop put his hand into his pocket, and gave him a guinea, with words to this effect : — " God bless you, and go where you can receive the greatest profit to your soul.
Page 101 - What ? Shall the glorious Creator be taught by you his creature, what is fit to be preached, and what to be suppressed.? Is the adorable God so very defective in wisdom and prudence, as not to know, till you instruct him, what would be...
Page 315 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 436 - His enemies reviled him, and would if possible rob him of the meed of well -deserved honour, by imputing to him objects below the prize he had in view. Never was a more disinterested character; but he was a man, and he must have been more than man, if with the consciousness of...