The Baptisms of the New Testament: Illustrations of the Ordinance from Its Administrations as Recorded by the Inspired WritersAmerican Baptist Publication Society, 1848 - 204 pages |
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... obedience to it . Between John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth , there existed a near relationship . Remarkable circumstances had attended the birth of each , and their mothers , especially , were eminent for their piety . As they had ...
... obedience to it . Between John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth , there existed a near relationship . Remarkable circumstances had attended the birth of each , and their mothers , especially , were eminent for their piety . As they had ...
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... obedience . " No excuse can stand in the way of the performance of duty when Jesus took a long journey to be publicly baptized in Jordan . Retire now from the engagements of earth and look at that scene ! See the devoted servant of God ...
... obedience . " No excuse can stand in the way of the performance of duty when Jesus took a long journey to be publicly baptized in Jordan . Retire now from the engagements of earth and look at that scene ! See the devoted servant of God ...
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... obedience , and can be filled with the grandeur of the undertaking on which he was about publicly to enter , and which should occupy him till the end of time - that of the salvation and the govern- ment of his people . He could not be ...
... obedience , and can be filled with the grandeur of the undertaking on which he was about publicly to enter , and which should occupy him till the end of time - that of the salvation and the govern- ment of his people . He could not be ...
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... and well has it been said by one of our own poets : — " A God inactive were a God unblest . " No sooner had Jesus , by holy baptism , entered on his life of public obedience to God , 3 * 29 THE FIRST BELIEVERS IN JESUS,
... and well has it been said by one of our own poets : — " A God inactive were a God unblest . " No sooner had Jesus , by holy baptism , entered on his life of public obedience to God , 3 * 29 THE FIRST BELIEVERS IN JESUS,
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... obedience to God , than he gave full evidence , that his meat and his drink was to do his will . A single short sentence contains his complete character and eulogy , - " He went about doing good . " Collecting together his few friends ...
... obedience to God , than he gave full evidence , that his meat and his drink was to do his will . A single short sentence contains his complete character and eulogy , - " He went about doing good . " Collecting together his few friends ...
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Page 87 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shall be : Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known ; Yet how rich is my condition ! God and heaven are still my own.
Page 118 - Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we ? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.
Page 145 - And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Page 49 - May he by whose kind care we meet, Send his good Spirit from above, Make our communications sweet, And cause our hearts to burn with love. 3 Forgotten be each worldly theme, When Christians see each other thus ; We only wish to speak of him Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.
Page 81 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Page 175 - Yet if I might make some reserve, And duty did not call, I love my God with zeal so great That I should give him all.
Page 3 - Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the Apostle's arm And drew him gently to the midst. The wood Was thick with the dim twilight as they came Up from the water. With his clasped hands...
Page 162 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 3 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 7 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men ; and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John ; the same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.