The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 5John Snow, 1869 |
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... priests appointed , and idolatrous rites celebrated in the palace , regulating her public proceeding by the supposed will of the national gods , by which she became the recognised head of the great heathen party in the country . This ...
... priests appointed , and idolatrous rites celebrated in the palace , regulating her public proceeding by the supposed will of the national gods , by which she became the recognised head of the great heathen party in the country . This ...
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... priests informed that their presence and services were no longer re- quired at the Court ; that the Government would no longer refer to the idols , or to divination , in any of its proceedings . At the same time the people were ...
... priests informed that their presence and services were no longer re- quired at the Court ; that the Government would no longer refer to the idols , or to divination , in any of its proceedings . At the same time the people were ...
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... priest - the law on Education changed in order to gratify the people in their desire to have the school under the guidance of the civil authorities . The changes that have been made are striking when looked at by the mere politician ...
... priest - the law on Education changed in order to gratify the people in their desire to have the school under the guidance of the civil authorities . The changes that have been made are striking when looked at by the mere politician ...
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... priests ; proselytism was forbidden under heavy penalty ; the pastors were made responsible for the exclusion of Roman ... priest , and this term was often extended to as many years : the Protes- tants were obliged to observe Roman ...
... priests ; proselytism was forbidden under heavy penalty ; the pastors were made responsible for the exclusion of Roman ... priest , and this term was often extended to as many years : the Protes- tants were obliged to observe Roman ...
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... Priest and King ? We might plead that the presence of men in a service of praise and prayer does not necessarily imply their participation in it . But even if they do participate , and we know it , shall we forbid 68 THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS .
... Priest and King ? We might plead that the presence of men in a service of praise and prayer does not necessarily imply their participation in it . But even if they do participate , and we know it , shall we forbid 68 THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS .
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Page 396 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 523 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 299 - And I saw no temple therein ; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it ; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 472 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try : Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air ; His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry—
Page 485 - And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the overseer verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 91 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 185 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 92 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Page 90 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 361 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.