The Christian Spectator, Volume 4Howe & Spalding, 1822 - Theology |
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... Blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth . Ir is conceded on all hands that the language , they shall inherit the earth , is not to be understood literal- ly ; for of all men the meek are in a world of bustle and strife ...
... Blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth . Ir is conceded on all hands that the language , they shall inherit the earth , is not to be understood literal- ly ; for of all men the meek are in a world of bustle and strife ...
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... blessed should enter heav surrection God having provided en together . To ascertain the meaning of the apostle in the passage before us , it is necessary to determine the object of the promise of which he speaks . Is it the promise of ...
... blessed should enter heav surrection God having provided en together . To ascertain the meaning of the apostle in the passage before us , it is necessary to determine the object of the promise of which he speaks . Is it the promise of ...
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... blessed with a more equauble tenor of inward peace and joy , and with a more uniformily clear and cheering anticipation of " the glory which shall be revealed . " Though no stranger to the fluctuations of pious hope , or the trying ...
... blessed with a more equauble tenor of inward peace and joy , and with a more uniformily clear and cheering anticipation of " the glory which shall be revealed . " Though no stranger to the fluctuations of pious hope , or the trying ...
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... blessings over the fleeting pilgrimage of versation in heaven , do most enrich the time - and who , while they hold their con- earth we tread upon , with all those vir- tues which secure enjoyment to families , and uphold the order and ...
... blessings over the fleeting pilgrimage of versation in heaven , do most enrich the time - and who , while they hold their con- earth we tread upon , with all those vir- tues which secure enjoyment to families , and uphold the order and ...
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... blessing of God still attending it , shall be deemed extravagant ? Half the diffi- culty is already removed : those , who once stigmatized the benevolent plans of the age as quixotic and ranked their author with the adventurers of other ...
... blessing of God still attending it , shall be deemed extravagant ? Half the diffi- culty is already removed : those , who once stigmatized the benevolent plans of the age as quixotic and ranked their author with the adventurers of other ...
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Page 506 - Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Page 184 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 506 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Page 226 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 11 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 519 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 284 - But He answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
Page 126 - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Page 186 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 571 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.