The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1868 |
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... government could be conceded to any religious denomination in these realms , so long as its clergy were paid by the State , was , both as a question of theory and of practice , being answered . It was settled at last , with perspicuity ...
... government could be conceded to any religious denomination in these realms , so long as its clergy were paid by the State , was , both as a question of theory and of practice , being answered . It was settled at last , with perspicuity ...
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... Government thus constituted must resolutely set itself to guard the interests entrusted to its care , and , without respect of persons , enforce its own decisions . It must be very jealous of change , inasmuch as the steadfastness of ...
... Government thus constituted must resolutely set itself to guard the interests entrusted to its care , and , without respect of persons , enforce its own decisions . It must be very jealous of change , inasmuch as the steadfastness of ...
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... Government , impose taxes upon its people , and compel their submission to its laws . Their own interests demand that they shall thus hold it in a sort of bondage , but they make the bondage as light as may be . A century after , the ...
... Government , impose taxes upon its people , and compel their submission to its laws . Their own interests demand that they shall thus hold it in a sort of bondage , but they make the bondage as light as may be . A century after , the ...
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... Government to keep it from quarrelling need- lessly with powers which might so easily lodge themselves in force upon our borders . Though for that matter France is much nearer to us where she now is than if she were to sail round half ...
... Government to keep it from quarrelling need- lessly with powers which might so easily lodge themselves in force upon our borders . Though for that matter France is much nearer to us where she now is than if she were to sail round half ...
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... Governments or the strife of political parties . Nor are the follies which have brought about the Abyssinian war to be attributed to the pre- sent Government , although they are largely due to that Toryism which is to be found on both ...
... Governments or the strife of political parties . Nor are the follies which have brought about the Abyssinian war to be attributed to the pre- sent Government , although they are largely due to that Toryism which is to be found on both ...
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Page 562 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 513 - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Page 315 - By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 437 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 407 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 986 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 5 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 600 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 997 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Page 362 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.