| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 664 pages
...danger in all these cases is, lest a man should bless himself in his SNARES ! ADAM well observes : — " A poor country parson, fighting against the Devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." Men of the world know nothing of true glory : they know nothing of the grandeur of that sentiment —... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Clergy - 1817 - 286 pages
...danger in all these uses is, lest a man should bless himself in hi« SNARES! ADAM well observes: — "A poor country parson, fighting against the Devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." Men of the world know nothing of true glorjr: they know nothing of lie grandeur of that sentiment —... | |
| Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 488 pages
...danger in all these cases is, lest a man should bless himself in his SNARES ! ADAM well observes: — "A poor country parson, fighting against the Devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." Men of the world know nothing of true glory: they know nothing of the grandeur of that sentiment —... | |
| John Sheppard - Apologetics - 1829 - 416 pages
...the love of human happiness; and it is truly, though bluntly remarked, by one that knew the heart, " A poor country parson fighting against the devil in...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." — Adam's Private Thoughts. views so differing in their purity and enlargement from what have been... | |
| Christian biography - 1836 - 432 pages
...danger in all these cases is, lest a man should bless himself in his SNARES ! ADAM well observes: — " A poor country parson, fighting against the devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." Men of the world know nothing of true glory : they know nothing of the grandeur of that sentiment —Thou,... | |
| Religion - 1836 - 428 pages
...danger in all these cases is, lest a man should bless himself in his SNARES ! ADAH well observes: — " A poor country parson, fighting against the devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." Men of the world know nothing of true glory : they know nothing of the grandeur of that sentiment —Thou,... | |
| Thomas Adam - Bible - 1837 - 440 pages
...inhabitants, and he could there find full employment, upon which he placed a due estimate : saying, " A poor country parson fighting against the devil in...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." He deemed the duties of a clergyman both important and requiring the devotion of a large part of his... | |
| Thomas Adam - Bible - 1837 - 440 pages
...inhabitants, and he could there find full employment, upon which he placed a due estimate: saying, "A poor country parson fighting against the devil...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." He deemed the duties of a clergyman both im-portant and requiring the devotion of a large part of his... | |
| 1846 - 780 pages
...wages." " ' But we will give ourselves unto prayer, and the ministry of the Word.' Remember this, О my soul, it is for eternity. " A poor country parson...with his bowels for souls— called— willing to be CHRIST. OBSKRV. 104. 3O spent — regardless of worldly preferment— owned of God — bated of men—... | |
| American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...not take both." " Mankind are perpetually at variance by being all of one sect, viz. selfists. " " A poor country parson fighting against the devil in...his parish, has nobler ideas than Alexander had." "Not to sin may be a bitter cross. To sin is hell." " ' Wilt thou be made whole ?,' is a trying qoestion,... | |
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