Life of Rev. Joseph Emerson: Pastor of the Third Congregational Church in Beverly, Ms., and Subsequently Principal of a Female SeminaryCrocker and Brewster, 1834 - 454 pages Joseph Emerson attended Harvard College and taught in Framingham, Mass., until his call in 1803 to the pulpit in Beverly. In 1816, he resigned this position because of ill health, and subsequently taught and/or served churches in Byfield and Saugus, Mass., and Wethersfield, Conn. He took two long visits to Charleston, S.C. This biography, by his brother, concludes with a genealogical survey of the Emerson family. |
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... faith and gone to inherit the promises . ' This is the way to become acquainted with divinity , both for theory and practice . And hence it is , that God has so filled his own divine book with such sketches . Possessing such views of ...
... faith and gone to inherit the promises . ' This is the way to become acquainted with divinity , both for theory and practice . And hence it is , that God has so filled his own divine book with such sketches . Possessing such views of ...
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... faith ! Had the masculine mother of Bonaparte , instead of encourag- ing his unhallowed and ambitious spirit , but rightly inter- posed the check of timely discipline , that man of blood might perhaps early have become , ( what his ...
... faith ! Had the masculine mother of Bonaparte , instead of encourag- ing his unhallowed and ambitious spirit , but rightly inter- posed the check of timely discipline , that man of blood might perhaps early have become , ( what his ...
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... faith in its real power . What it appears to do for one , it may not effect for another . There are springs in the complicated machinery of human action , that none but the eye of the Omniscient can see , and no finger but his can touch ...
... faith in its real power . What it appears to do for one , it may not effect for another . There are springs in the complicated machinery of human action , that none but the eye of the Omniscient can see , and no finger but his can touch ...
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... faith in Christ , the influence of the Holy Spirit , and election ; and I hope and trust that I have in some degree tasted the trans- cendant beauties of religion , and seen that the Lord is good . Desirous to obey all the commands of ...
... faith in Christ , the influence of the Holy Spirit , and election ; and I hope and trust that I have in some degree tasted the trans- cendant beauties of religion , and seen that the Lord is good . Desirous to obey all the commands of ...
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... faith fail not " that I disgrace not my high calling ? Perhaps you will think me wrong in accepting an offer so confined and arduous as that of a tutor . But I can assure you that upon mature deliberation I verily thought it consistent ...
... faith fail not " that I disgrace not my high calling ? Perhaps you will think me wrong in accepting an offer so confined and arduous as that of a tutor . But I can assure you that upon mature deliberation I verily thought it consistent ...
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