The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1860 |
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... Lord , or from his apostles , which would lead us to infer that Christianity was to be promulgated by means of any book , or rather , by the series of books of which the Bible is composed . Instead of sending his apostles armed with ...
... Lord , or from his apostles , which would lead us to infer that Christianity was to be promulgated by means of any book , or rather , by the series of books of which the Bible is composed . Instead of sending his apostles armed with ...
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... Lord . Two of the Gospels are by parties who were not apostles at all . One of the writers ( St. Luke ) , who probably never in his life saw our Lord , writes only at the instance of a friend , who wished to know something of the ...
... Lord . Two of the Gospels are by parties who were not apostles at all . One of the writers ( St. Luke ) , who probably never in his life saw our Lord , writes only at the instance of a friend , who wished to know something of the ...
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... Lord , shortly after he began to preach , sent forth seventy disciples , and not one of them was supplied with any document whatever . Their mission was to preach ; not to distribute Bibles . Our Lord himself preached . He wrote no new ...
... Lord , shortly after he began to preach , sent forth seventy disciples , and not one of them was supplied with any document whatever . Their mission was to preach ; not to distribute Bibles . Our Lord himself preached . He wrote no new ...
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... Lord to have had his religion diffused by means of the Protestant Rule of Faith , would he not have devised some means for carrying out his will ? Either he would have suggested himself ( I speak with all possible reve- rence ) , or ...
... Lord to have had his religion diffused by means of the Protestant Rule of Faith , would he not have devised some means for carrying out his will ? Either he would have suggested himself ( I speak with all possible reve- rence ) , or ...
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... Lord commands his followers , that " if they would be his disciples , they must wash one another's feet . " Nor should they receive what they term the sacrament , in the morning , but as Christ and his disciples received it , in the ...
... Lord commands his followers , that " if they would be his disciples , they must wash one another's feet . " Nor should they receive what they term the sacrament , in the morning , but as Christ and his disciples received it , in the ...
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Page 82 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 220 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 191 - I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Page 249 - All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Page 163 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 230 - ... as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Page 276 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Page 23 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 27 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new ; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 255 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...