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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... relation to the people among whom their work was to be performed , and to the science of the age in which they lived , imparted special qualifications for their great mission . It was not merely the fact that divine grace had ...
... relation to the people among whom their work was to be performed , and to the science of the age in which they lived , imparted special qualifications for their great mission . It was not merely the fact that divine grace had ...
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... relations of life which society creates , the barriers reared against the concentration of power in single hands to the injury of the many , the facilities for the determination of the right , -these reveal them- selves as its vital ...
... relations of life which society creates , the barriers reared against the concentration of power in single hands to the injury of the many , the facilities for the determination of the right , -these reveal them- selves as its vital ...
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... relation to us as a nation set to bear a great part in making it a reality , it was new , bold , almost presumptuous . As yet the church was in the gristle of youth , its limited resources seemingly tasked to the uttermost in planting ...
... relation to us as a nation set to bear a great part in making it a reality , it was new , bold , almost presumptuous . As yet the church was in the gristle of youth , its limited resources seemingly tasked to the uttermost in planting ...
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... relations of the fact to the character , power , and government of God , and the bearings of the fact on our Missionary enterprise , will indicate themselves to all our minds . — That we may get the thought fully before us , as it lay ...
... relations of the fact to the character , power , and government of God , and the bearings of the fact on our Missionary enterprise , will indicate themselves to all our minds . — That we may get the thought fully before us , as it lay ...
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... relation to His supreme mind , to His all - controlling and absolute will ! And further , let us notice THE INTERPRETING POWER OF THIS SAME DIVINE ELEMENT in more recent history ; the light which it casts on the subsequent changes that ...
... relation to His supreme mind , to His all - controlling and absolute will ! And further , let us notice THE INTERPRETING POWER OF THIS SAME DIVINE ELEMENT in more recent history ; the light which it casts on the subsequent changes that ...
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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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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.