| John Bird Sumner - 1847 - 522 pages
...burthen all the while. It is not thus when the church has rest, and the Christian is able to walk " in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost," * " no man forbidding him." There will always be need of self-denial ; for " the flesh lusteth... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1859 - 720 pages
...under gross darkness and ignorance. 5. Fear, and be enlarged. The first Christians are said to walk " in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost," &c. [Acts ix. 31.] — Abundance of the sea. Foreign nations in abundance, with their riches,... | |
| Alexander Gordon (of Walsall.) - 1848 - 134 pages
...prosperity within thy palaces." When love prevailed in the primitive churches, they" had rest, and walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, they One of the most delightful aspects under which the influence of Christian love appears,... | |
| Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1848 - 324 pages
...He has been brought from darkness into light, and from the power of Satan unto God, and is walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, in a new, and holy, and obedient life. Such are the privileges of being in Christ. If any man... | |
| John Angell James - 1849 - 302 pages
...at it but one extract more from his journal, 1772. ^rt ok chaise to Birmingham. Here are brethren " in the fear of God. and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost. God has at length made even the beasts of the field to be at peace with me. All was quiet in... | |
| Peter Duncan - 1849 - 446 pages
...period in which it could be so truly said, " Then had the churches rest; and were edified; and, walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." At the close of the meeting, the brethren partook of the Lord's Supper, and... | |
| James Foote - 1849 - 698 pages
...increase their light, and zeal, and holiness. May the Churches have rest, and be edified, and, walking in the fear of God and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, be multiplied. duct. In like manner, for the general prosperity of the Church, it is certainly... | |
| Edward Payson - 1849 - 628 pages
...this interval of rest in some measure as they ought. Hence they were edified or built up. and walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied. In other words, their numbers, as well as their graces, were greatly increased.... | |
| Edward Payson - 1849 - 624 pages
...will be made to churches which walk in this manner, is probable from the consideration, that walking in the fear of God and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, is exceedingly pleasing to God, and naturally tends to draw down upon them his blessing. Indeed... | |
| 1859 - 606 pages
...two beyond it. In our own Colonial Churches we have nearly 1300 members, whom we trust are walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost. We have also more than fifty Native Preachers and Exhorters who conduct Divine worship on the... | |
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