God's Purpose in Planting the American Church: A Sermon, Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the Meeting in Boston, Mass., October 2, 1860 |
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... conversion , the providence of God , never , like man , neglectful of the minor things of life , had chosen , guided , disciplined and trained them in respect to those qualifications which belonged to them rather as men than as prophets ...
... conversion , the providence of God , never , like man , neglectful of the minor things of life , had chosen , guided , disciplined and trained them in respect to those qualifications which belonged to them rather as men than as prophets ...
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... conversion of men only less great than that shown by its opposite error . It is not that the human is thus exalted above the divine , but simply that the divine uses that kind and measure of humanity which are best fitted to accomplish ...
... conversion of men only less great than that shown by its opposite error . It is not that the human is thus exalted above the divine , but simply that the divine uses that kind and measure of humanity which are best fitted to accomplish ...
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... convert the world . Is it of no con- sequence , when we send forth our forces to fight for us , that other forces vastly greater , are here intensely busy in creating the means to supply the instruments and material of successful war ...
... convert the world . Is it of no con- sequence , when we send forth our forces to fight for us , that other forces vastly greater , are here intensely busy in creating the means to supply the instruments and material of successful war ...
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... conversion of men . Growing out of the purest and simplest principles of our Protestantism , they are so many independent con- servators of the truth and safeguards against the overmastering power of any one great error . The ...
... conversion of men . Growing out of the purest and simplest principles of our Protestantism , they are so many independent con- servators of the truth and safeguards against the overmastering power of any one great error . The ...
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... conversion of the world . VII . But not to detain you much longer , let me say a word on two other features of that training , by which God has signally set us apart for the work of missions . Whoever shall write the history of the ...
... conversion of the world . VII . But not to detain you much longer , let me say a word on two other features of that training , by which God has signally set us apart for the work of missions . Whoever shall write the history of the ...
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God's Purpose in Planting the American Church: A Sermon, Before the American ... Samuel Ware Fisher No preview available - 2019 |
God's Purpose in Planting the American Church: A Sermon, Before the American ... Samuel W. Fisher No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 17 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 3 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 2 - That in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Page 14 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 11 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 6 - Angels ! assist our mighty joys ; Strike all your harps of gold ; But, when you raise your highest notes His love can ne'er be told.
Page 17 - Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever: the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Page 12 - Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, alllicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy.) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in...
Page 12 - Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.