Memoirs of the Rev. John Rodgers, D. D.: Late Pastor of the Wall-street and Brick Churches in the City of New-YorkWhiting and Watson, theological and classical booksellers. J. Seymour, printer., 1813 - New York (N.Y.) - 432 pages |
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... FATHERS AND BRETHREN , THE character and ministry of the venerable Man with whose memoirs you are here present- ed , were dear to you all . Most of you knew him personally ; and all of you revered him as one of the Fathers of the ...
... FATHERS AND BRETHREN , THE character and ministry of the venerable Man with whose memoirs you are here present- ed , were dear to you all . Most of you knew him personally ; and all of you revered him as one of the Fathers of the ...
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... Fathers and Brethren in the Ministry . One thing is certain , that if the portrait here drawn be even tolerably just , it cannot be viewed wholly without benefit by those who have a taste for studying and copying excellence . € I shall ...
... Fathers and Brethren in the Ministry . One thing is certain , that if the portrait here drawn be even tolerably just , it cannot be viewed wholly without benefit by those who have a taste for studying and copying excellence . € I shall ...
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... devote ourselves , is the fervent prayer of , Reverend Fathers and Brethren , Your fellow - servant in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . SAMUEL MILLER . New - York , Feb. 25 , 1813 . MEMOIRS , & c . Καὶ ὅτε ἐγένετο ετων δωδεκαεἶπε.
... devote ourselves , is the fervent prayer of , Reverend Fathers and Brethren , Your fellow - servant in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . SAMUEL MILLER . New - York , Feb. 25 , 1813 . MEMOIRS , & c . Καὶ ὅτε ἐγένετο ετων δωδεκαεἶπε.
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... fathers of the American Church were more deeply learn- ed than most of their sons . They read more , and thought more , than we are ready to imagine . The greater part of the books of ancient learn- ing , and ponderous erudition , which ...
... fathers of the American Church were more deeply learn- ed than most of their sons . They read more , and thought more , than we are ready to imagine . The greater part of the books of ancient learn- ing , and ponderous erudition , which ...
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... father's , in the city of Philadelphia , and finished them under the direction of the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent , who had then become the Pas- tor of the second Presbyterian Church , in that city . In the month of June , in the year ...
... father's , in the city of Philadelphia , and finished them under the direction of the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent , who had then become the Pas- tor of the second Presbyterian Church , in that city . In the month of June , in the year ...
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Page 366 - For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Page 374 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 351 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 358 - And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel ; but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them ; and they were smitten before Israel.
Page 297 - And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 361 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Page 370 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Page 358 - Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Page 352 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Page 359 - ... though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.