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... stand still . - J . Webster . ACTION . A Plea for Why are we energetic everywhere but in the pulpit ? No man expresses warm and animated feelings anywhere else with his mouth alone , but with his whole body ; he articulates with every ...
... stand still . - J . Webster . ACTION . A Plea for Why are we energetic everywhere but in the pulpit ? No man expresses warm and animated feelings anywhere else with his mouth alone , but with his whole body ; he articulates with every ...
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... stand in the place of the old Mosaic law . Their argu ments were scriptural and national . We have but little evidence that they preached in any such systematic manner as has grown up in Churches since their time . Already they found a ...
... stand in the place of the old Mosaic law . Their argu ments were scriptural and national . We have but little evidence that they preached in any such systematic manner as has grown up in Churches since their time . Already they found a ...
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... stand as an argument of the truth of the scheme that shall confound the infidel , and sustain the Christian with the assured belief that this is a religion which has proceeded from the all - powerful and infinitely benevolent God.—A ...
... stand as an argument of the truth of the scheme that shall confound the infidel , and sustain the Christian with the assured belief that this is a religion which has proceeded from the all - powerful and infinitely benevolent God.—A ...
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... stand to gaze too long , Though on unfolding heaven our gaze we bend , Where lost behind the bright angelic throng We see Christ's entering triumph slow ascend . No fear but we shall soon behold , Faster than now it fades , that gleam ...
... stand to gaze too long , Though on unfolding heaven our gaze we bend , Where lost behind the bright angelic throng We see Christ's entering triumph slow ascend . No fear but we shall soon behold , Faster than now it fades , that gleam ...
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... stand on an entirely different level from all religious ceremonies of mere human appointment ; and this is the reason why it is designated with the special title of sacrament , in order to distinguish it from all others . If , therefore ...
... stand on an entirely different level from all religious ceremonies of mere human appointment ; and this is the reason why it is designated with the special title of sacrament , in order to distinguish it from all others . If , therefore ...
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Page 59 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 410 - All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghostj teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 38 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 486 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Page 522 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.
Page 561 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 465 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place," " it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, 'For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever:' that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
Page 562 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels ; by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 286 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, That takest away the sins of the world : have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world: receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father: have mercy upon us.
Page 591 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.