Memoirs of the Rev. John H. Livingston ...: Prepared in Compliance with a Request of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church in North AmericaW. A. Mercein, printer, 1829 - 540 pages |
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... respect entertained by you for the talents and piety of our late venerable Friend and Father , and of your grateful sense of his many eminent services to our beloved Church - the soli- citude you have expressed , to have prepared and ...
... respect entertained by you for the talents and piety of our late venerable Friend and Father , and of your grateful sense of his many eminent services to our beloved Church - the soli- citude you have expressed , to have prepared and ...
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... respect for departed merit - a mag- nanimity worthy of all commendation . The Chris- tian Public will no doubt view it in this light , and approve it . For the honour you were pleased to confer upon me , in committing to my hands the ...
... respect for departed merit - a mag- nanimity worthy of all commendation . The Chris- tian Public will no doubt view it in this light , and approve it . For the honour you were pleased to confer upon me , in committing to my hands the ...
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... respect and hoping too that the study of so excellent a character might prove , in no small degree , beneficial to my own soul , I was induced , at length , to venture on the undertaking . I regret that my efforts to obtain materials ...
... respect and hoping too that the study of so excellent a character might prove , in no small degree , beneficial to my own soul , I was induced , at length , to venture on the undertaking . I regret that my efforts to obtain materials ...
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... respect , to inscribe it , ―adding my fervent prayer , that the GREAT HEAD OF THE CHURCH , will render it subservient to the advance- ment of his kingdom , and that HE will fill You " with all the fulness of God . " Your friend and ...
... respect , to inscribe it , ―adding my fervent prayer , that the GREAT HEAD OF THE CHURCH , will render it subservient to the advance- ment of his kingdom , and that HE will fill You " with all the fulness of God . " Your friend and ...
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... respect which has been paid , time out of mind , to a connexion by birth or otherwise , with the worldly rich and worldly great , will be transferred to a kindred with those whom the word of God denominates THE EXCELLENT OF THE EARTH ...
... respect which has been paid , time out of mind , to a connexion by birth or otherwise , with the worldly rich and worldly great , will be transferred to a kindred with those whom the word of God denominates THE EXCELLENT OF THE EARTH ...
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Page 26 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 376 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Page 217 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 15 - PRAISE ye the Lord. Blessed is the man, that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Page 474 - So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 492 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Page 144 - ... minister, elders and deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church of the city of New York...
Page 401 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 440 - There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Page 267 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us : 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.