The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1868 |
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... less divergent from the High Church standard . The statement which follows may be considered , even by some " Free Church- men , " to be extreme , and to yield less reverence to the church than from its nature and origin it can fairly ...
... less divergent from the High Church standard . The statement which follows may be considered , even by some " Free Church- men , " to be extreme , and to yield less reverence to the church than from its nature and origin it can fairly ...
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... less true of the Church , in relation to morals , to phi- losophy , and science . It has been influenced much more than it has influenced others . What it now desires to prove that it possesses , and boasts of as its chief inheritance ...
... less true of the Church , in relation to morals , to phi- losophy , and science . It has been influenced much more than it has influenced others . What it now desires to prove that it possesses , and boasts of as its chief inheritance ...
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... less illustrious son , owed far less to their leaders than to themselves , and whose ultimate success , after fifty years of struggle , was due mainly to their own patient endurance , to the cheerfulness with which they submitted to ...
... less illustrious son , owed far less to their leaders than to themselves , and whose ultimate success , after fifty years of struggle , was due mainly to their own patient endurance , to the cheerfulness with which they submitted to ...
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... less resolute , or the tyranny of Spain less odious , the death of William the Silent must have been the overthrow of the Con- federacy . But , through all their internal dissensions and per- plexities , through all the selfish plans of ...
... less resolute , or the tyranny of Spain less odious , the death of William the Silent must have been the overthrow of the Con- federacy . But , through all their internal dissensions and per- plexities , through all the selfish plans of ...
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... less forced than the most objectionable of the interpretations which Tract XC . puts upon any passage in the articles . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who hath left power to His Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him ...
... less forced than the most objectionable of the interpretations which Tract XC . puts upon any passage in the articles . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who hath left power to His Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him ...
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Popular passages
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.