The Life and Character of John Howe, M.A.: With an Analysis of His Writings |
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... Principles on which Howe defended that practice . 389 СНАРТER X I. FROM 1704 TO 1705 . Howe's last Illness . - State of Mind . - Death . - Extract from his Will . His Person . - Analysis of his Character . CHAPTER XII . ANALYSIS OF ...
... Principles on which Howe defended that practice . 389 СНАРТER X I. FROM 1704 TO 1705 . Howe's last Illness . - State of Mind . - Death . - Extract from his Will . His Person . - Analysis of his Character . CHAPTER XII . ANALYSIS OF ...
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... principles of our nature , as shall secure the highest perfection of them all , and enable us uniformly and equably to sustain the various relations in which we stand to God , to ourselves , and to one another . This character , an ...
... principles of our nature , as shall secure the highest perfection of them all , and enable us uniformly and equably to sustain the various relations in which we stand to God , to ourselves , and to one another . This character , an ...
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... principles , of the com- prehensiveness and beauty of which he knows little . The comparatively inexperienced seaman , and the accomplished pilot , may both reach the port ; but the one will trim his sails to every variation of wind ...
... principles , of the com- prehensiveness and beauty of which he knows little . The comparatively inexperienced seaman , and the accomplished pilot , may both reach the port ; but the one will trim his sails to every variation of wind ...
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... principles on which they were to act : but it cannot be said that those prin- ciples were distinctly and habitually present to their mind , or that they lived under a conscious readiness to employ them before the exigency which demanded ...
... principles on which they were to act : but it cannot be said that those prin- ciples were distinctly and habitually present to their mind , or that they lived under a conscious readiness to employ them before the exigency which demanded ...
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... principles on which he was to act , but held his principles in constant readiness to meet the occasion . If we may judge from the whole tenour of his life and writings , it is not more evident that the sculptor intends those little ...
... principles on which he was to act , but held his principles in constant readiness to meet the occasion . If we may judge from the whole tenour of his life and writings , it is not more evident that the sculptor intends those little ...
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Page 243 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 570 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 279 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 216 - ... but Christ being come, an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building ; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Page 243 - No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 229 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 125 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 279 - And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Page 283 - And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 283 - Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby...