The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 39Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1845 |
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Page 217 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land ? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own ? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 157 - And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
Page 199 - For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; so that they (the heathen) are without excuse.
Page 167 - A life beyond the grave," he says, " is the last enemy which speculative criticism has to oppose, and if possible, to vanquish...
Page 11 - And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord ; Hosanna in the highest.
Page 130 - Vital Christianity : Essays and Discourses on the Religions of Man and the Religion of God. By ALEXANDER VINET, DD, Professor of Theology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Translated, with an Introduction, by Robert Turnbull, Pastor of the Howard, street Church, Boston.
Page 110 - ... bitter. Hence, he needs the instruction of God's Holy Word to enable him to discern the things that are excellent ; to prove all things, and hold fast that which is good. Above all, he needs the enlightening influences of the Holy Spirit to " give him understanding," and guide him into all truth.
Page 276 - The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: or, the Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees generally : with Descriptions of all the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, cultivated in this Country.
Page 403 - And now, when I sit down seriously to compare the system of doctrines with which I have so long been fettered, with those under the influence of which my freed spirit now joyfully springs to meet its benevolent Creator, I cannot but exclaim, 'thanks be to God, who hath given me the victory, through my Lord Jesus Christ ! ' My mind is disenthralled, disenchanted, awakened as from a death-like stupor, — all mists are cleared away, — and this feeling of light, and life, and liberty, arises from...
Page 421 - Biblicae,' being a connected series of notes on the text and literary history of the bibles or sacred books of the Jews and Christians ; and on the bibles or books accounted sacred by the Mahometans, Hindus, Parsees, Chinese, and Scandinavians. This work, published first in 1797, has been translated into French. In vol. ii., ' History if the Geographical and Political Revolutions of the Empire of Germany," originally publishe'd in 1806.