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... existence stands imperilled , not so much by the assaults of open enemies as by relentless plottings and distrust engendered by certain who have professed to be its friends . The Irish Church has been disestablished ; we will not ...
... existence stands imperilled , not so much by the assaults of open enemies as by relentless plottings and distrust engendered by certain who have professed to be its friends . The Irish Church has been disestablished ; we will not ...
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... existence the present Commission . It is true that many less important innovations were alleged in 1641 , which have not been renewed at the present day ; but many also are advanced in the present day which were not attempted in 1641 ...
... existence the present Commission . It is true that many less important innovations were alleged in 1641 , which have not been renewed at the present day ; but many also are advanced in the present day which were not attempted in 1641 ...
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... existence and in strength , within the pale of the Church ; and that whenever the binding and compressing weight of the State is taken off , their mutual animosity will instantly appear , and a dissolution and sepaght the . nesthurch ...
... existence and in strength , within the pale of the Church ; and that whenever the binding and compressing weight of the State is taken off , their mutual animosity will instantly appear , and a dissolution and sepaght the . nesthurch ...
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... existence of ; and sure tidings were brought to them of the extension of Christ ' s kingdom in regions which many had scarcely attempted to define . Shall we be wrong in ascribing some portion of that readiness with which , shortly ...
... existence of ; and sure tidings were brought to them of the extension of Christ ' s kingdom in regions which many had scarcely attempted to define . Shall we be wrong in ascribing some portion of that readiness with which , shortly ...
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... existence ; but if we would survey it in the fulness of all its proportions , the invitation is also “ Suspice , " and we must lift up the eye of faith to behold a multitude of all nations and kindreds and tongues and people who have ...
... existence ; but if we would survey it in the fulness of all its proportions , the invitation is also “ Suspice , " and we must lift up the eye of faith to behold a multitude of all nations and kindreds and tongues and people who have ...
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Page 188 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 111 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 550 - ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world...
Page 160 - Then said He unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.
Page 154 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 545 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 372 - I forty stripes save one; thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeying often; in perils of waters; in perils of robbers; in perils by mine own countrymen; in perils by the heathen; in perils in the city; in perils in the wilderness; in perils in the sea; in perils among false brethren...
Page 64 - Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings!
Page 541 - Cease, then, nor Order Imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — • In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 186 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?