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Page x
... favour of this young orator , and restored him in July 1743 to the bounds of his native city . In this station Dr. Blair continued eleven years , discharging with great fidelity and success the various duties of the pastoral office ...
... favour of this young orator , and restored him in July 1743 to the bounds of his native city . In this station Dr. Blair continued eleven years , discharging with great fidelity and success the various duties of the pastoral office ...
Page xii
... favour the world with a volume of the Sermons which had so long furnished instruction and delight to his own congregation . But this volume being well received , the public approbation encouraged him to proceed : three other volumes + ...
... favour the world with a volume of the Sermons which had so long furnished instruction and delight to his own congregation . But this volume being well received , the public approbation encouraged him to proceed : three other volumes + ...
Page 8
... favour- able supposition , it is a transient impression of se- riousness , an accidental melting of the heart , which passes away like the morning cloud and the early dew ; or , which I am afraid is too often the case , it is the ...
... favour- able supposition , it is a transient impression of se- riousness , an accidental melting of the heart , which passes away like the morning cloud and the early dew ; or , which I am afraid is too often the case , it is the ...
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... favoured with a supernatural message from heaven . While the princes of the earth were left to act by the councils of their own wisdom ; while with- out interposition from above , generals conquered or fell , according to the ...
... favoured with a supernatural message from heaven . While the princes of the earth were left to act by the councils of their own wisdom ; while with- out interposition from above , generals conquered or fell , according to the ...
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... favour who rules the world is the most soothing . Every form of religion has afforded to vir- tuous men some degree of this consolation . But it was reserved for the Christian revelation , to carry it to its highest point . For it is ...
... favour who rules the world is the most soothing . Every form of religion has afforded to vir- tuous men some degree of this consolation . But it was reserved for the Christian revelation , to carry it to its highest point . For it is ...
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