The Missionary Convention at Jerusalem: Or, An Exhibition of the Claims of the World to the Gospel |
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Page 32
... favour of his own country , a restriction in the text , or is it not rather a limitation in the views of its interpreters ? Can every country possess superior advantages to all others ? If , as you all admit , the text is to be taken in ...
... favour of his own country , a restriction in the text , or is it not rather a limitation in the views of its interpreters ? Can every country possess superior advantages to all others ? If , as you all admit , the text is to be taken in ...
Page 47
... favoured cities , a large majority of the inhabitants never attend divine worship . They are not included in any congregation they enjoy no pastoral visitation . Many of them are poor and unable to make a de- cent appearance - they are ...
... favoured cities , a large majority of the inhabitants never attend divine worship . They are not included in any congregation they enjoy no pastoral visitation . Many of them are poor and unable to make a de- cent appearance - they are ...
Page 49
... favour what from its very nature it must oppose . I do not see how the oft - repeated adage , “ charity begins at home , " can be made to subserve the purpose of this argument . Our friend who has just spoken believes that they to whom ...
... favour what from its very nature it must oppose . I do not see how the oft - repeated adage , “ charity begins at home , " can be made to subserve the purpose of this argument . Our friend who has just spoken believes that they to whom ...
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... favour Zion " are we to expect , if these prove insufficient ? Could any other expression of his will be so sig- nal and satisfactory ? Paul was invited to Mace- donia , and he went . To what country is not the church now invited ? Oh ...
... favour Zion " are we to expect , if these prove insufficient ? Could any other expression of his will be so sig- nal and satisfactory ? Paul was invited to Mace- donia , and he went . To what country is not the church now invited ? Oh ...
Page 69
... favour of the final happiness of the heathen ; and what do they prove ? that there is hope for any considerable number of them ? No - that any of them will certainly be saved ? Not even that . How uncharitable then - nay , how cruel is ...
... favour of the final happiness of the heathen ; and what do they prove ? that there is hope for any considerable number of them ? No - that any of them will certainly be saved ? Not even that . How uncharitable then - nay , how cruel is ...
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Page 38 - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Page 49 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Page 21 - ... remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Page 31 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 168 - And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together ; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Page 171 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 16 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 26 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all, is rich unto all that call upon him.
Page 171 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.