Reminiscences and anecdotes of celebrated preachers1876 |
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... blessed Lord , freely placed at the disposal of the bishops and their flocks the vast halls of justice , or courts of law , which were to be found in every consider- able city . These buildings consisted of a broad central nave , with ...
... blessed Lord , freely placed at the disposal of the bishops and their flocks the vast halls of justice , or courts of law , which were to be found in every consider- able city . These buildings consisted of a broad central nave , with ...
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... blessed old prayer - book service of the Church of England ; in which , as the minister prays with and at the head of his people , they knowing what he is about to say , all being joined in sending up the burning sacrifice of prayer and ...
... blessed old prayer - book service of the Church of England ; in which , as the minister prays with and at the head of his people , they knowing what he is about to say , all being joined in sending up the burning sacrifice of prayer and ...
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... * * * An eminent preacher used to say- " Sermons are not worship ; they are but means to an end . Ends and means must not be confounded . The road to London is not London . " CHAPTER II . T HE sermon of Our Blessed Lord.
... * * * An eminent preacher used to say- " Sermons are not worship ; they are but means to an end . Ends and means must not be confounded . The road to London is not London . " CHAPTER II . T HE sermon of Our Blessed Lord.
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Thomas Jackson. CHAPTER II . T HE sermon of Our Blessed Lord on the Mount , and His other divine discourses , addressed not to selected pupils and admiring friends , but emphatically to the multitude - to publicans and sinners , to toil ...
Thomas Jackson. CHAPTER II . T HE sermon of Our Blessed Lord on the Mount , and His other divine discourses , addressed not to selected pupils and admiring friends , but emphatically to the multitude - to publicans and sinners , to toil ...
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... blessed Lord walked this earth ? but one only ministered unto Him , and he only in His burial . " How many peasants were there in the country when Christ went to die ? but one only was deemed worthy to bear His cross , and he bore it by ...
... blessed Lord walked this earth ? but one only ministered unto Him , and he only in His burial . " How many peasants were there in the country when Christ went to die ? but one only was deemed worthy to bear His cross , and he bore it by ...
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Page 257 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 344 - Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 203 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Page 355 - And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD...
Page 326 - Christ in you, the hope of glory ; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 204 - And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 300 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Page 220 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead ; much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Page 20 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 183 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.