Memoirs, Including Letters, and Select Remains, of John Urquhart, Late of the University of St. Andrew's, Volume 1 |
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... degrees , and can never be pronounced perfect ; while the latter is perfect in every individual of the species ; and that , not gradually , but at once . We have only to do with the facts ; in these cases we know nothing of the mode of ...
... degrees , and can never be pronounced perfect ; while the latter is perfect in every individual of the species ; and that , not gradually , but at once . We have only to do with the facts ; in these cases we know nothing of the mode of ...
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... degree of future reward will bear some proportion to the degree of successful exertion in the cause of Christ , it must therefore be more desirable to have opportunity for full , and even long continued employment in this world , than ...
... degree of future reward will bear some proportion to the degree of successful exertion in the cause of Christ , it must therefore be more desirable to have opportunity for full , and even long continued employment in this world , than ...
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... degree which cannot be fully ascertained or known in this world . There his mind was richly stored with divine truth , the full benefit of which did not appear at the time , but afterwards , in the rapidity with which he grew in ...
... degree which cannot be fully ascertained or known in this world . There his mind was richly stored with divine truth , the full benefit of which did not appear at the time , but afterwards , in the rapidity with which he grew in ...
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... degree . It appeared in the arrangement of his little library , in the keeping of his things , in attention to his person ; and , in short , in all that was capable of evincing the possession of a mind perspicacious , well balanced ...
... degree . It appeared in the arrangement of his little library , in the keeping of his things , in attention to his person ; and , in short , in all that was capable of evincing the possession of a mind perspicacious , well balanced ...
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... degree counteracted . Dangers of a very formid- able kind frequently assail an inexperienced youth , not only from the associates of his academical pur- suits , but from some of those pursuits themselves . But the election had been made ...
... degree counteracted . Dangers of a very formid- able kind frequently assail an inexperienced youth , not only from the associates of his academical pur- suits , but from some of those pursuits themselves . But the election had been made ...
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Page 68 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 140 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 22 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 193 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 131 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee ; His visage was so marred more than any man, And his form more than the sons of men...
Page 183 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 130 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 138 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Page 67 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 183 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.