Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ...W. Baynes, 1816 - Christian biography |
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... comforting afflicted spirits . 6 Mr. Bolton , from this time , purposing to enter into the ministry , was ordained in the thirty - fifth year of his age ; and , two years after , was presented by Mr. Nicolls , serjeant at law , to the ...
... comforting afflicted spirits . 6 Mr. Bolton , from this time , purposing to enter into the ministry , was ordained in the thirty - fifth year of his age ; and , two years after , was presented by Mr. Nicolls , serjeant at law , to the ...
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... comforting afflicted consciences ; so that people applied to him far and near : And several from beyond sea desired his advice and direction in different cases of conscience . This determined him in publishing his last excellent ...
... comforting afflicted consciences ; so that people applied to him far and near : And several from beyond sea desired his advice and direction in different cases of conscience . This determined him in publishing his last excellent ...
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... comforting his soul with medita- tions of the joys of heaven , the subject he had prepared to preach upon the Sunday following . His last much- admired work , entitled , his " Four last things : Death , " Judgment , Hell , and Heaven ...
... comforting his soul with medita- tions of the joys of heaven , the subject he had prepared to preach upon the Sunday following . His last much- admired work , entitled , his " Four last things : Death , " Judgment , Hell , and Heaven ...
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... comforts that were in Christ , he would now tell them what he felt in his soul . " Alas ! ( said he ) do you " look for ... comfort as my heart can hold , " and feel nothing in my soul but Christ , with whom I " heartily desire to be ...
... comforts that were in Christ , he would now tell them what he felt in his soul . " Alas ! ( said he ) do you " look for ... comfort as my heart can hold , " and feel nothing in my soul but Christ , with whom I " heartily desire to be ...
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... comfort , and his honour , confessed as much . But the highest point of his spiritual wisdom ap- peared in the practice of piety ; in a due conformity of his actions to his speculations ; drawing out ( as it were ) a fair copy , in the ...
... comfort , and his honour , confessed as much . But the highest point of his spiritual wisdom ap- peared in the practice of piety ; in a due conformity of his actions to his speculations ; drawing out ( as it were ) a fair copy , in the ...
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Page 239 - Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts : we shall be satisfied, with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Page 80 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 253 - Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 120 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy : when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
Page 127 - Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 129 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 126 - I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation : I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Page 128 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye ; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you ; on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 58 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Page 128 - And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.