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... feel himself supported in his desertion of India by such an example as this ? - But he refers to the sovereign purpose of God according to election , in vindication of his conduct : ( p . 42-44 . ) " That God , in his infinite mercy ...
... feel himself supported in his desertion of India by such an example as this ? - But he refers to the sovereign purpose of God according to election , in vindication of his conduct : ( p . 42-44 . ) " That God , in his infinite mercy ...
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... feel a thrill of horror pass through his veins , on reading this deliberate consign- ment of so many of our fellow - creatures to perdition ! True , St. Paul does confess , that the purposes and ways of God are myste- rious , secret ...
... feel a thrill of horror pass through his veins , on reading this deliberate consign- ment of so many of our fellow - creatures to perdition ! True , St. Paul does confess , that the purposes and ways of God are myste- rious , secret ...
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... God's power , be extended also to the idolaters of Hindoo- stan . And if he rightly appreciates " this greatest of all the divine favours in this life , " * and feels grateful to God for it , he 26 Possibility of converting the Hindoos .
... God's power , be extended also to the idolaters of Hindoo- stan . And if he rightly appreciates " this greatest of all the divine favours in this life , " * and feels grateful to God for it , he 26 Possibility of converting the Hindoos .
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James Hough. * and feels grateful to God for it , he renders to the Lord a very unsuitable return for so unspeakable a mercy , when exerting his utmost ability to prevent its diffusion through- out the habitable globe . Christ is ...
James Hough. * and feels grateful to God for it , he renders to the Lord a very unsuitable return for so unspeakable a mercy , when exerting his utmost ability to prevent its diffusion through- out the habitable globe . Christ is ...
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... feeling , and led the national opi- nion ? What is there in India that can ex- ceed the mental thraldom in which the Jews were held by their Rabbis ? ( Matt . xxiii . 4 , 13. Luke xi . 52. ) In short , we have only to read the account ...
... feeling , and led the national opi- nion ? What is there in India that can ex- ceed the mental thraldom in which the Jews were held by their Rabbis ? ( Matt . xxiii . 4 , 13. Luke xi . 52. ) In short , we have only to read the account ...
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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.