The Works of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, L.L.D.: Comprising His Eras of Light, Light of the World , and Star in the East, to which is Added Christian Researched, in Asia: with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental LanguagesNeal and Wills, 1812 - 369 pages |
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... remain in their pristine idolatry . It was a chief object of the author's tour through India , to mark the relative influence of Paganism and Christianity . In order then that the English nation may be able to form a judgment on this ...
... remain in their pristine idolatry . It was a chief object of the author's tour through India , to mark the relative influence of Paganism and Christianity . In order then that the English nation may be able to form a judgment on this ...
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... remain unburied . On a plain by the river , near the pilgrim's caravan- sera at this place , there are more than an hundred skulls . The dogs , jackalls , and vultures , seem to live here on human prey . The vultures exhibit a shocking ...
... remain unburied . On a plain by the river , near the pilgrim's caravan- sera at this place , there are more than an hundred skulls . The dogs , jackalls , and vultures , seem to live here on human prey . The vultures exhibit a shocking ...
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... carried by the Hurries to the Golgotha , where I have just been viewing his remains . How much I wish- ed that the proprietors of India stock could have at tended the wheels of Juggernaut , and seen this pe- Respecting the Hindoos . 23.
... carried by the Hurries to the Golgotha , where I have just been viewing his remains . How much I wish- ed that the proprietors of India stock could have at tended the wheels of Juggernaut , and seen this pe- Respecting the Hindoos . 23.
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... remains to be asked . Have the court of directors at any time sent instructions to their government in India to report on the means by which the frequency of the female sacrifice might be diminished , and the practice itself eventually ...
... remains to be asked . Have the court of directors at any time sent instructions to their government in India to report on the means by which the frequency of the female sacrifice might be diminished , and the practice itself eventually ...
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... remain " a dead letter . " When the scriptures speak to a heathen in his own tongue , his conscience responds , " This is the word of God . " How little is the importance of a version of the Bible in a new language understood by some ...
... remain " a dead letter . " When the scriptures speak to a heathen in his own tongue , his conscience responds , " This is the word of God . " How little is the importance of a version of the Bible in a new language understood by some ...
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Page 135 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 347 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 117 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Page 124 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 135 - For, I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness, in part, is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 300 - And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 184 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride HE is able to abase.
Page 156 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man : the field is the world : the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one : the enemy that sowed them is the devil : the harvest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 134 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Page 102 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood; and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.