The Correspondence of John Henry Hobart...

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Page clxxv - ARE you ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's word ; and both privately and openly to call upon and encourage others to the same ? Answer.
Page 216 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 216 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 176 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page clxxviii - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page clxxii - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 176 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page cliii - But I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Page 366 - LAST DAYS OF OUR LORD'S MINISTRY : a Course of Lectures on the principal Events of Passion Week. By WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, DD Vicar of Leeds, Prebendary of Lincoln, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Qneen.
Page cxxxv - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).