Labourers in the East, Or Memoirs of Eminent Men, who Were Devoted to the Service of Christ in India: Abridged for the Use of the Young, and Affectionately Inscribed to Sabbath School Boys

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I. Ashmead & Company, 1827
 

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Page 128 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Page 7 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 116 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day : the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 82 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 52 - I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Page 122 - I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God; in solitude my company, my Friend, and Comforter. O ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness ! There — ' there shall in no wise enter in...
Page 46 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 85 - If on my face, for Thy dear name, Shame and reproaches be, All hail reproach, and welcome shame, If Thou remember me.
Page 111 - My health, concerning which you " enquire, continues, we hope, to amend ; but it " will be long before I obtain much strength, even " if there should be no relapse of paralysis, which " can only be known to Him who ' said to the " sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee.
Page 142 - His extreme forbearance towards the violence of his opponents, the calm and yet convincing manner in which he exposed the fallacies and sophistries by which he was assailed (for he spoke Persian excellently), gradually inclined me to listen to his arguments, to inquire dispassionately into the subject of them, and finally to read a tract which he had written in reply to a defence of Islamism by our chief Mollahs.

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