A Memorial of the Semi-centenary Celebration of the Founding of the Theological Institute of Connecticut

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Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1884 - 146 pages

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Page 46 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 144 - ... rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our tribulations : knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience, probation ; and probation, hope: and hope putteth not to shame ; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which was given unto us.
Page 63 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God ; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit ; By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah...
Page 86 - O save us by the washing of regeneration, and by the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Page 104 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 17 - Of all specific voluntary action the happiness of the agent, in some form, is the ultimate end.
Page 82 - England in my prayers, as not considering the state of the rest of the world ; or if I prayed for the conversion of the Jews, that was almost all. But now, as I better understand the case of the world, and the method of the Lord's Prayer, so there is nothing in the world that lieth so heavy upon my heart as the thought of the miserable nations of the earth.
Page 57 - The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully request the attention of their reverend Fathers, convened in the General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and inquiries. " They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to the heathen...
Page 12 - Hopkins, which is, to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times.
Page 64 - What is the best method of treating all manner of sicknesses, and all manner of diseases among the people...

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