The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine:, Volume 12John Snow, 1855 |
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... received the name of the Dark Ages . Whenever the splendour of the Church began to wane , then the darkness and the dampness of spi- ritual death crept over the earth . The hand on the dial - plate moved back- ward . The experiment has ...
... received the name of the Dark Ages . Whenever the splendour of the Church began to wane , then the darkness and the dampness of spi- ritual death crept over the earth . The hand on the dial - plate moved back- ward . The experiment has ...
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... received members on the same Lord's day . Soon afterwards he felt a strong desire to become a preacher like his uncle , John Davies , who , according to his frequent subse- quent assertion , had been the means of " turning him from ...
... received members on the same Lord's day . Soon afterwards he felt a strong desire to become a preacher like his uncle , John Davies , who , according to his frequent subse- quent assertion , had been the means of " turning him from ...
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... . But however high we may be , there is no honour due unless we make an advance . In an old church - record at Nenaddlwyd , we find it stated that he was received mem- ber there , September 27 , 1807 , when Dr. 16 BIOGRAPHY .
... . But however high we may be , there is no honour due unless we make an advance . In an old church - record at Nenaddlwyd , we find it stated that he was received mem- ber there , September 27 , 1807 , when Dr. 16 BIOGRAPHY .
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... received impres- sions more than ordinarily powerful . His conversion , which none that knew him doubted , was not the sudden flash of the lightning , but the slow and sure coming of the dawn , where no precise dividing line be- tween ...
... received impres- sions more than ordinarily powerful . His conversion , which none that knew him doubted , was not the sudden flash of the lightning , but the slow and sure coming of the dawn , where no precise dividing line be- tween ...
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... received their in- vitation to be their pastor . The ministers unanimously agreed that he erred neither in word or works , and his opponents were told there and then that his doctrine and life were blameless . These ministers were then ...
... received their in- vitation to be their pastor . The ministers unanimously agreed that he erred neither in word or works , and his opponents were told there and then that his doctrine and life were blameless . These ministers were then ...
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Page 182 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 141 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Page 193 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 509 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Page 282 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 141 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 165 - Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, "John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Page 228 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 182 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 149 - ... the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect...