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Page 112 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how ; for the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself.
Page 421 - Verily, 1 say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing;' and St. John's expression in the Apocalypse, that ' no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book.
Page 108 - Thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the King of Egypt, and you shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
Page ix - transaction, we trace the original principle of Church power, though miserably defaced and perverted, whose form ' Had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured.' Upon the same basis, as is notorious, was built the Ecclesiastical Monarchy. It
Page 112 - which a man took and hid in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,
Page 400 - Father Almighty," and " His Only-begotten Son, our Lord, God from God, Light from Light, Very God from Very God," and of the Holy Ghost, " the Lord and Giver of Life," we are told in the Athanasian of '• the Father Eternal, the Son Eternal, and the Holy Ghost Eternal," and that
Page 355 - principle, above spoken of, which I have called the Sacramental. " We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness,
Page 430 - they say, He hath a devil. The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publicans
Page 83 - them. It is illustrated by the words of Jeroboam, " Now shall this kingdom return to the house of David, if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem. . . Wherefore the king took
Page 255 - the Lord, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof.' What ! shall the seed of Abraham, which is as the stars and the sand on the