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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Page xxv
... offered to preach in the col- lege hall to the scholars , once on the sabbath of every third or fourth week , taking turns with the professors ; an offer which appears to have been accepted ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON . XXV.
... offered to preach in the col- lege hall to the scholars , once on the sabbath of every third or fourth week , taking turns with the professors ; an offer which appears to have been accepted ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON . XXV.
Page xxvi
... offer which appears to have been accepted by the Town Council . Bound up with the book entitled , Naphtali , is a letter from James Mitchell , the stern fanatic , who suffered for his attempt on the life of Archbishop Sharp . In this ...
... offer which appears to have been accepted by the Town Council . Bound up with the book entitled , Naphtali , is a letter from James Mitchell , the stern fanatic , who suffered for his attempt on the life of Archbishop Sharp . In this ...
Page lvi
... offers a living to one of his clergy , affords a beauti- ful specimen of christian politeness , at the same time that it lets us into the Bishop's sense of the temper and affection , with which a charge of souls should be undertaken ...
... offers a living to one of his clergy , affords a beauti- ful specimen of christian politeness , at the same time that it lets us into the Bishop's sense of the temper and affection , with which a charge of souls should be undertaken ...
Page lix
... offered more scope for pithy practical remark , and were better calculated to lay hold on the attention of the audi- tory . Though friendly to a grave and masculine eloquence , of which he was himself no common master , yet his chief ...
... offered more scope for pithy practical remark , and were better calculated to lay hold on the attention of the audi- tory . Though friendly to a grave and masculine eloquence , of which he was himself no common master , yet his chief ...
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... offers on his part should be re- tracted or frittered away ; and that , on being ac- cepted , they should forthwith pass into laws . But in this embassy of love he was met with chilling unkindness . Not a grain of concession could be ...
... offers on his part should be re- tracted or frittered away ; and that , on being ac- cepted , they should forthwith pass into laws . But in this embassy of love he was met with chilling unkindness . Not a grain of concession could be ...
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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.