The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, Volume 1James Duncan, 1825 - Theology |
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... king by the death of John , earl of Dundee , without male issue . The father of Archbishop Leighton was Dr. Alexan- der Leighton , a presbyterian clergyman of unhappy celebrity . His sufferings and the causes of them are notorious . In ...
... king by the death of John , earl of Dundee , without male issue . The father of Archbishop Leighton was Dr. Alexan- der Leighton , a presbyterian clergyman of unhappy celebrity . His sufferings and the causes of them are notorious . In ...
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... King ; a step which would have involved him in serious trouble with the republican government , but for the interposition of the Earl of Lothian , and the charm of his personal character . When the Engagement ex- pired , in the ...
... King ; a step which would have involved him in serious trouble with the republican government , but for the interposition of the Earl of Lothian , and the charm of his personal character . When the Engagement ex- pired , in the ...
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... king's service , before an engagement which was daily expected should take place . On his way to the camp he was benighted in the midst of a vast thicket ; and having deviated from the path , he sought in vain for an outlet . Almost ...
... king's service , before an engagement which was daily expected should take place . On his way to the camp he was benighted in the midst of a vast thicket ; and having deviated from the path , he sought in vain for an outlet . Almost ...
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... King's college , Aberdeen , of Glasgow , and of St. Andrew's , paid the forfeit of their stubborn loyalty with their aca- demical places . The selfsame day on which the office was declared vacant , Leighton was chosen to it . The ...
... King's college , Aberdeen , of Glasgow , and of St. Andrew's , paid the forfeit of their stubborn loyalty with their aca- demical places . The selfsame day on which the office was declared vacant , Leighton was chosen to it . The ...
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... King's dis- position , and that fostered in him those licentious habits , which have consigned his reign to the most ignominious page of English history . It is remark- able , that Scotland shared largely , as Kirkton pathe- tically ...
... King's dis- position , and that fostered in him those licentious habits , which have consigned his reign to the most ignominious page of English history . It is remark- able , that Scotland shared largely , as Kirkton pathe- tically ...
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Page 67 - Christ : whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 142 - Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot : who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Page 97 - For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 52 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Page 86 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 161 - Man that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one.
Page 40 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 315 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 129 - Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 23 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.