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... Author's more ela- borate work , giving " A Description of the People of India * : " but these extracts , I trust , will be sufficient to satisfy the reader , * For an exposition of the inconsistency between the Author's description of ...
... Author's more ela- borate work , giving " A Description of the People of India * : " but these extracts , I trust , will be sufficient to satisfy the reader , * For an exposition of the inconsistency between the Author's description of ...
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... Author's descrip- * : tions are written in glowing language , and under 214 Of the Syrian Church in Travancore . SECTION V P THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SYRIAN CHURCH TRAVANCORE, TOGETHER WITH THE SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED THE MEANS USED.
... Author's descrip- * : tions are written in glowing language , and under 214 Of the Syrian Church in Travancore . SECTION V P THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SYRIAN CHURCH TRAVANCORE, TOGETHER WITH THE SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED THE MEANS USED.
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... Author of Revelation , the common Father of all Mankind , for having , without any previous deserving on our part , chosen us , among so many Idolatrous Nations , to be His adopted people . What ought not our gratitude to be to Him for ...
... Author of Revelation , the common Father of all Mankind , for having , without any previous deserving on our part , chosen us , among so many Idolatrous Nations , to be His adopted people . What ought not our gratitude to be to Him for ...
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... author's whole book is intended to explode . Who the authors of these " erroneous state- ments " are , we cannot say . Sure we are that he cannot be speaking of us , for he describes them as " know- ing nothing or very little of the ...
... author's whole book is intended to explode . Who the authors of these " erroneous state- ments " are , we cannot say . Sure we are that he cannot be speaking of us , for he describes them as " know- ing nothing or very little of the ...
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... author complains bitterly of the fruitlessness of all his exertions to plant Christianity in India , although he had " watered its soil with his sweats and many times with his tears , " adding , that " the seeds sown by him have ...
... author complains bitterly of the fruitlessness of all his exertions to plant Christianity in India , although he had " watered its soil with his sweats and many times with his tears , " adding , that " the seeds sown by him have ...
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Page 18 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 83 - Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Page 4 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 267 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 38 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Page 32 - For, I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness, in part, is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 205 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 19 - And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Page 10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 25 - And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.