An account of the life of ... John Richardson1832 |
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... father to you , " & c . • ،، By this call were our honourable predecessors in the beginning , separated from the spirit and ways of the world , and incited to refuse touch- ing the unclean thing or whatever sprang from an impure source ...
... father to you , " & c . • ،، By this call were our honourable predecessors in the beginning , separated from the spirit and ways of the world , and incited to refuse touch- ing the unclean thing or whatever sprang from an impure source ...
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... father in the course of his travels , spoke to David Hall ( the memoirs of whose life are extant , and for whom my mother had an honourable esteem ) and agreed with him to take me as usher to his school , desiring no other terms for me ...
... father in the course of his travels , spoke to David Hall ( the memoirs of whose life are extant , and for whom my mother had an honourable esteem ) and agreed with him to take me as usher to his school , desiring no other terms for me ...
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... father , wherein he signified , that consi- dering my years , he approved of my qualifica- tions and conduct , and offered wages for my future service . My mother took little notice of the offer ; but was exceedingly rejoiced at the ...
... father , wherein he signified , that consi- dering my years , he approved of my qualifica- tions and conduct , and offered wages for my future service . My mother took little notice of the offer ; but was exceedingly rejoiced at the ...
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... father , being just arrived from a journey , in which he had made his way through Skipton , informed me that he had agreed with David Hall to bind me to him for four years longer ; this was no agreeable intelligence to me , for although ...
... father , being just arrived from a journey , in which he had made his way through Skipton , informed me that he had agreed with David Hall to bind me to him for four years longer ; this was no agreeable intelligence to me , for although ...
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... father in the course of his travels , spoke to David Hall ( the memoirs of whose life are extant , and for whom my mother had an honourable esteem ) and agreed with him to take me as usher to his school , desiring no other terms for me ...
... father in the course of his travels , spoke to David Hall ( the memoirs of whose life are extant , and for whom my mother had an honourable esteem ) and agreed with him to take me as usher to his school , desiring no other terms for me ...
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Page 250 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 249 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 253 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 308 - ... but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands ; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord ; whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Page 280 - The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ...
Page 136 - As no one knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man that is in him ; so the manner of the things of God knoweth no one, save the Spirit of God.
Page 307 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 164 - the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church...
Page 324 - England, how he is come to answer his eating and drinking the passover and last supper with his disciples, saying, He would drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until he drank it new with them in his Father's kingdom. Now he that hath experienced what this eating and drinking is...
Page 243 - Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we ? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.