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... reasons for his nonconformity : but it has been in- finitely far from my purpose to employ his name in subserviency to party purposes . To enlist him , whose temper and spirit were so transcendently catholic ; whose whole life was ...
... reasons for his nonconformity : but it has been in- finitely far from my purpose to employ his name in subserviency to party purposes . To enlist him , whose temper and spirit were so transcendently catholic ; whose whole life was ...
Page ix
... reasons which endear him to any one party , the reasons are still stronger which should endear him to all . To write the life of Howe with any mean , sectarian feeling , would , in my estimation , be as unutterably absurd , as to write ...
... reasons which endear him to any one party , the reasons are still stronger which should endear him to all . To write the life of Howe with any mean , sectarian feeling , would , in my estimation , be as unutterably absurd , as to write ...
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... Reasons of this . - Destruction of his MSS . - Probable reasons of his con- duct . — Chief design of the present volume . — Principal aspects under which Howe's character is to be contemplated . — Value of a certain species of biography ...
... Reasons of this . - Destruction of his MSS . - Probable reasons of his con- duct . — Chief design of the present volume . — Principal aspects under which Howe's character is to be contemplated . — Value of a certain species of biography ...
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... reason , then the language I have used might justly appear unwarrantably strong ; but the light in which I regard him , is that of a signal trophy of the transforming power of the Gos- -an illustrious example of what it is , pel , —an ...
... reason , then the language I have used might justly appear unwarrantably strong ; but the light in which I regard him , is that of a signal trophy of the transforming power of the Gos- -an illustrious example of what it is , pel , —an ...
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... reason , and gives form , colouring , and substance , to what would otherwise be mere in- tellectual abstractions . Amongst the manifold proofs which the Scrip- ture affords of the superhuman wisdom which has presided over its ...
... reason , and gives form , colouring , and substance , to what would otherwise be mere in- tellectual abstractions . Amongst the manifold proofs which the Scrip- ture affords of the superhuman wisdom which has presided over its ...
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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...