A letter to ... dr. Durell ... occasioned by a late expulsion of six students from Edmund hall |
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... shall not be from thence , fays the Prophet , any more death or barren land : So the waters were healed unto this day . " But alas ! how is this general joy damped , and the pleafing profpect almoft totally eclipfed , by a late ...
... shall not be from thence , fays the Prophet , any more death or barren land : So the waters were healed unto this day . " But alas ! how is this general joy damped , and the pleafing profpect almoft totally eclipfed , by a late ...
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... shall find , that even David , after he was anointed King , looked back with fweet complacence to the rock from whence he was hewn , and is not ashamed to leave it upon re- cord , that God took him away from the sheep - folds , as he ...
... shall find , that even David , after he was anointed King , looked back with fweet complacence to the rock from whence he was hewn , and is not ashamed to leave it upon re- cord , that God took him away from the sheep - folds , as he ...
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... shall hear of fome few others of a contrary stamp , being expelled for extempore fwear- ing , which by all impartial judges must undoubt- edly be acknowledged to be the greater crime of the two . Singing , compofing , or reading Hymns ...
... shall hear of fome few others of a contrary stamp , being expelled for extempore fwear- ing , which by all impartial judges must undoubt- edly be acknowledged to be the greater crime of the two . Singing , compofing , or reading Hymns ...
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... shall very foon become diforderly indeed : our Pulpits will ftill continue to contradict our Reading - defks , and we fhall never have the honour of being filed regu- lar and orderly , till , regardless of Subfcriptions , Oaths ...
... shall very foon become diforderly indeed : our Pulpits will ftill continue to contradict our Reading - defks , and we fhall never have the honour of being filed regu- lar and orderly , till , regardless of Subfcriptions , Oaths ...
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... of wounds and bruifes , and putrifying fores . " Shall there no man be found then to ftand in the gap ? None dare to attempt at leaft to ftem the impetuous torrent ? None venture to to go out with their lives in their hand , 40.
... of wounds and bruifes , and putrifying fores . " Shall there no man be found then to ftand in the gap ? None dare to attempt at leaft to ftem the impetuous torrent ? None venture to to go out with their lives in their hand , 40.
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Page 34 - Whether it be right in the fight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, Judge ye, ver.
Page 30 - And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
Page 28 - God's purpose by His Spirit working in due season. They through grace obey the calling, they be justified freely, they be made sons of God by adoption, they be made like the image of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy they attain to everlasting felicity.
Page 7 - Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
Page 28 - Wherefore they, which be endued with fo excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpofe by his Spirit working in due feafon : they through grace obey the calling ; they be juftified freely : they be made...
Page 30 - Behold a total overthrow to all worldly temples, and their ceremonious appendences ! The martyr follows his blow upon thofe apoftate Jews, who were of thofe times, the pompous, ceremonious, worldly worfhippers : ' Ye ' ftiff-necked and uncircumcifed in heart and ears, ye ' do always refift the Holy Ghoft; as did your fathers,
Page 14 - Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind ; this is the firft and great commandment : and the fecond is like unto it, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf ; on thefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Page 26 - DO you truft that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghoft to take upon you this Office and Miniftration, to ferve God for the promoting of his glory, and the edifying of his people ? Anfiver.