A Parting Memorial: Consisting of Miscellaneous Discourses, Written and Preached in China, at Singapore, on Board Ship at Sea in the Indian Ocean, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in England : with Remarks on Missions, &c. &c |
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... fellow creatures in such an apostate , low , degraded state , generally look upon idolatry with the utmost in- difference ; and still more , in the face of the strongest ab- horrence against this abominable sin , expressed in the sacred ...
... fellow creatures in such an apostate , low , degraded state , generally look upon idolatry with the utmost in- difference ; and still more , in the face of the strongest ab- horrence against this abominable sin , expressed in the sacred ...
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... fellow - creatures , instead of that duty which man owes to his Creator . Hap- pily we have the answer given by Him , who came down from heaven , and which we are assured is sanctioned there . Jesus answered the Pharisee by a quotation ...
... fellow - creatures , instead of that duty which man owes to his Creator . Hap- pily we have the answer given by Him , who came down from heaven , and which we are assured is sanctioned there . Jesus answered the Pharisee by a quotation ...
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... fellow men and fellow servants , but that he should feel compassion , and benig nity , and zeal to turn men from their dumb idols , their false prophets , and their false gods ; and from the service of Satan , the god of this world ...
... fellow men and fellow servants , but that he should feel compassion , and benig nity , and zeal to turn men from their dumb idols , their false prophets , and their false gods ; and from the service of Satan , the god of this world ...
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... fellow - creatures . Whilst I plead the cause of the natives here , I do not forget our native land , and our immediate relatives , and our poor kindred ; and , some of us can say — our own children . No ! let all these have their share ...
... fellow - creatures . Whilst I plead the cause of the natives here , I do not forget our native land , and our immediate relatives , and our poor kindred ; and , some of us can say — our own children . No ! let all these have their share ...
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... fellow- creatures . It is thus expressed by divine authority , " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and love thy neighbour as thyself . " To love God means to reverence him and fear him , as a good child does a kind ...
... fellow- creatures . It is thus expressed by divine authority , " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and love thy neighbour as thyself . " To love God means to reverence him and fear him , as a good child does a kind ...
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Page 179 - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 207 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 316 - But I have used none of these things : neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me : for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
Page 37 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 189 - For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 189 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin...
Page 202 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 323 - ... or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another...
Page 223 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 316 - But Peter said unto him ; Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.