The theory and desirableness of revivals, six sermonsR.B. Blackader, 1842 - 195 pages |
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... scenes , and with a heart full of faith he uttered the language of our text , " Pour down , ye heavens , from above like descending showers , and ye skies distil righteousness like fertilizing rains ; let the earth open her SERMON I.
... scenes , and with a heart full of faith he uttered the language of our text , " Pour down , ye heavens , from above like descending showers , and ye skies distil righteousness like fertilizing rains ; let the earth open her SERMON I.
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... heart is changed , and when the man that was characteristically a sinner becomes cha- racteristically a Christian . This change is always attended with feeling . The man is awakened to a sense of his danger ; feels with more or less ...
... heart is changed , and when the man that was characteristically a sinner becomes cha- racteristically a Christian . This change is always attended with feeling . The man is awakened to a sense of his danger ; feels with more or less ...
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... hearts . Let a Christian com- munity feel on the great subject of religion what individual Christians sometimes feel , and should always feel , and , so far as the church is concerned , there would be all the phenomena that exist in a ...
... hearts . Let a Christian com- munity feel on the great subject of religion what individual Christians sometimes feel , and should always feel , and , so far as the church is concerned , there would be all the phenomena that exist in a ...
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... storm over hills and vales , illustrates the way in which God's Spirit influences human hearts . You have seen the pliant osier bend gently before the zephyr , and the flowers and the fields of grain gently wave in THEORY OF REVIVALS . 35.
... storm over hills and vales , illustrates the way in which God's Spirit influences human hearts . You have seen the pliant osier bend gently before the zephyr , and the flowers and the fields of grain gently wave in THEORY OF REVIVALS . 35.
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... heart , and you will expect sympathy , concert , united action . I have seen during the last few years a common ... hearts vibrating with a common emotion , from Bangor to New Orleans . I ask why there may not THEORY OF REVIVALS . 39.
... heart , and you will expect sympathy , concert , united action . I have seen during the last few years a common ... hearts vibrating with a common emotion , from Bangor to New Orleans . I ask why there may not THEORY OF REVIVALS . 39.
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Page 61 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions : And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Page 97 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Gyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 129 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 153 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 61 - And I will show wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Page 190 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 60 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows by the water courses.
Page 82 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few : pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 60 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 48 - Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.