A sketch of the the life of the rev. John Brown, sometime minister ... in Wamphray; with notes and a historical appendix1839 |
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... duties ; the time when , and reasons for which he was deprived of his charge , and banished from his native country , page 1 CHAP . II . The time when he arrived in Holland , with an account of some of his cotemporaries and fellow ...
... duties ; the time when , and reasons for which he was deprived of his charge , and banished from his native country , page 1 CHAP . II . The time when he arrived in Holland , with an account of some of his cotemporaries and fellow ...
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... duties , and committed sins , of the aggravation of which he was not so sensible till he was brought into the deep valley of adversity --from any of these causes , or from some of them combined , he might be led to express himself in ...
... duties , and committed sins , of the aggravation of which he was not so sensible till he was brought into the deep valley of adversity --from any of these causes , or from some of them combined , he might be led to express himself in ...
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... duties to which it ob- liges . They would consider it as it exhibits pardon , for we are enjoined to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ , for the remission of sins . It exhibits Christ as the Lord our right- eousness ; for as many ...
... duties to which it ob- liges . They would consider it as it exhibits pardon , for we are enjoined to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ , for the remission of sins . It exhibits Christ as the Lord our right- eousness ; for as many ...
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... duty is not stretched too tight , when we are told we should accept every thing at his hands as a blessing , and to be thankful even while we smart under the rod of iron with which he sometimes rules us . Without this persuasion , every ...
... duty is not stretched too tight , when we are told we should accept every thing at his hands as a blessing , and to be thankful even while we smart under the rod of iron with which he sometimes rules us . Without this persuasion , every ...
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... duties as their dissent from what is done prejudicial to his work and interest , and mark them among the mourners in Zion . But the passage most noticed was that with which he closes the sermon , after what I have just now set down ...
... duties as their dissent from what is done prejudicial to his work and interest , and mark them among the mourners in Zion . But the passage most noticed was that with which he closes the sermon , after what I have just now set down ...
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Page 77 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; Until I went into the sanctuary of God , then understood I their end.
Page 63 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 269 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 430 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 303 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 27 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 405 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 44 - You only have I known of all the families of the earth : therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Page 2 - Will the Lord cast off for ever ? And will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious t Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies...
Page 37 - So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.