The Festivals and Fasts of the Church: A Series of Familiar Conversations Between a Godmother and Child ...Gen. Prot. Epis. S. S. Union, 1841 - Church year |
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... Jews were ordered to observe several Feasts , in memory of past benefits , as the Feast of the passover , of weeks , and of tabernacles ; and since we Christians have received yet greater blessings from God than even His chosen people ...
... Jews were ordered to observe several Feasts , in memory of past benefits , as the Feast of the passover , of weeks , and of tabernacles ; and since we Christians have received yet greater blessings from God than even His chosen people ...
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... Jews loved their temple , how much delight they took in worshipping there ; how they came up , even from a distance , with trouble and difficulty , to pray to Him who dwelt there in the Holy of Holies . What was the Holy of Holies a ...
... Jews loved their temple , how much delight they took in worshipping there ; how they came up , even from a distance , with trouble and difficulty , to pray to Him who dwelt there in the Holy of Holies . What was the Holy of Holies a ...
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... first martyr ; the first who suffered death for our Lord's sake , as you told me once . G. - Very little is known of St. Stephen's history . He was a Jew by birth , and he is supposed to have been one of the seventy dis- ciples.
... first martyr ; the first who suffered death for our Lord's sake , as you told me once . G. - Very little is known of St. Stephen's history . He was a Jew by birth , and he is supposed to have been one of the seventy dis- ciples.
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... Jews boasted much of being the chosen people of God , and prided themselves on being favoured above other nations ... Jews : You know that they had rites and ceremonies , which were appointed to them by their law , and which no other ...
... Jews boasted much of being the chosen people of God , and prided themselves on being favoured above other nations ... Jews : You know that they had rites and ceremonies , which were appointed to them by their law , and which no other ...
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... so much in the Bible about the sins of the Jews , if we were in no danger of falling into the like sins ? But I will go on now with St. Stephen's instructions to his countrymen . He tried 60 [ DIAL . VI . ST . STEPHEN'S DAY .
... so much in the Bible about the sins of the Jews , if we were in no danger of falling into the like sins ? But I will go on now with St. Stephen's instructions to his countrymen . He tried 60 [ DIAL . VI . ST . STEPHEN'S DAY .
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Page 85 - Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him : behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 177 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 34 - Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 169 - And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine...
Page 32 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
Page 21 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Page 16 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them : for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light...
Page 65 - And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
Page 148 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Page 132 - For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. 45 And blessed is she that believed : for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.