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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... grace had consecrated them , that made them all they were . Back of their 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 ...
... grace had consecrated them , that made them all they were . Back of their 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 ...
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... grace of the Spirit , were realized in many , whose faces now glow in the vision of Christ . Yet from this religion the nation had early and persistently swung away , into grossest idolatries ; reproducing in gold the Egyptian Apis ...
... grace of the Spirit , were realized in many , whose faces now glow in the vision of Christ . Yet from this religion the nation had early and persistently swung away , into grossest idolatries ; reproducing in gold the Egyptian Apis ...
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... grace and the majesty of letters ; before any government had sought to incorporate its rules into stat- utes ; before any one of all the great names now associated with it had become its bulwark in the popular confidence . In the simply ...
... grace and the majesty of letters ; before any government had sought to incorporate its rules into stat- utes ; before any one of all the great names now associated with it had become its bulwark in the popular confidence . In the simply ...
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... grace ; the institution of the holy Sabbath , the worship of his house , and the proclamation of the terms of moral cure , restoration and salvation to the ends of the earth . Indeed , may we not even venture to affirm , that it was the ...
... grace ; the institution of the holy Sabbath , the worship of his house , and the proclamation of the terms of moral cure , restoration and salvation to the ends of the earth . Indeed , may we not even venture to affirm , that it was the ...
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... grace ? Yes , it is even so ! Such is the sublime elevation , the illimitable range , and the quench- less fire of Christ's love , that it yearns toward his worst enemies , and selects his murderers as the first objects of his ...
... grace ? Yes , it is even so ! Such is the sublime elevation , the illimitable range , and the quench- less fire of Christ's love , that it yearns toward his worst enemies , and selects his murderers as the first objects of his ...
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God's Purpose in Planting the American Church: A Sermon, Before the American ... Samuel Ware Fisher No preview available - 2019 |
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agencies AMERICAN BOARD angels Anglo-Saxon Apostle believe Bible blessed BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS brethren brought character Christendom Christian church civilization command COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN consecration conversion Corinth cross crucified crucifixion darkness dead death debt disciples divine earth energy Ephesus eternal evangelization fact faith Father feel force FOREIGN MISSIONS give glorious glory God's gospel grace hand hath heart heathen heaven Holy human idolatry India influence Israel Jerusalem Jesuit Jesus Christ John of Leyden Judaism kingdom labor land lifted light living look Lord mighty mind minister missionary missionary enterprise moral nations nature never pagan Paul Port Natal pray prayer preach the gospel principle prophets Protestantism race Redeemer religion resurrection sacrifice salvation Saviour SERMON soul spirit stand sympathy things Thomas Chalmers thought tion to-day true truth uncon universal unto vast victory whole Wicliffe word
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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.