The Great Teacher: Characteristics of Our Lord's MinistryJ.S. and C. Adams, 1836 - 444 pages |
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Page viii
... thoughts . V. To motives --- Love of God . VI . Prescribes for its end , the glory of God . VII . For its standard , the char- acter of God . VIII . Injunctions , simple and authori- tative --- Sanctions . IX . Not only commands , but ...
... thoughts . V. To motives --- Love of God . VI . Prescribes for its end , the glory of God . VII . For its standard , the char- acter of God . VIII . Injunctions , simple and authori- tative --- Sanctions . IX . Not only commands , but ...
Page xiv
... thought it not robbery to be equal with God , but made him- self of no reputation , and took upon himself the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of man ; and being found in fashion as a man , he humbled himself , and ...
... thought it not robbery to be equal with God , but made him- self of no reputation , and took upon himself the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of man ; and being found in fashion as a man , he humbled himself , and ...
Page xvii
... . In reading these Essays , I have been exceedingly interest- ted , as I am sure every person must be , who is pleased to B 1 find weighty and well digested thoughts , imbued with INTRODUCTION . xvii THE AUTHORITY OF OUR LORD'S TEACHING.
... . In reading these Essays , I have been exceedingly interest- ted , as I am sure every person must be , who is pleased to B 1 find weighty and well digested thoughts , imbued with INTRODUCTION . xvii THE AUTHORITY OF OUR LORD'S TEACHING.
Page xviii
... thought of The Great Teacher , and borrowing their opinions , to help make out a respectable volume , he has evidently heard for himself ; and he gives us his own impressions vividly and forcibly , just as he received them . Such a book ...
... thought of The Great Teacher , and borrowing their opinions , to help make out a respectable volume , he has evidently heard for himself ; and he gives us his own impressions vividly and forcibly , just as he received them . Such a book ...
Page xix
... thoughts , as many as twelve or fifteen characteristics of our Lord's Teaching presented themselves to notice , all of which I hoped to be able to illustrate in a volume . But the expansive nature of the subject soon warned me of the ...
... thoughts , as many as twelve or fifteen characteristics of our Lord's Teaching presented themselves to notice , all of which I hoped to be able to illustrate in a volume . But the expansive nature of the subject soon warned me of the ...
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Page 272 - Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known.
Page 352 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 328 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Page 44 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 232 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page xiv - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 262 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 301 - Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Page 260 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 296 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.