Memoir of Rev. Gustavus F. Davis, D.D. ...: With Six Sermons on the Peculiar Sentiments of the Baptist Denomination, Preached by Him Before His Congregation, 1834-5Canfield and Robins, 1837 - 319 pages |
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Page 43
... evidence of my adoption that I feel for the cause of Christ in every place , and esteem Jerusalem above my chief joy . 15th . Early this morning went into B. and called upon my uncle B. at whose house I staid over night . I have not ...
... evidence of my adoption that I feel for the cause of Christ in every place , and esteem Jerusalem above my chief joy . 15th . Early this morning went into B. and called upon my uncle B. at whose house I staid over night . I have not ...
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... evidence that God would pour out his Spirit , and ere long gather souls into the sheep - fold . O may my pray- ers be heard and answered . the religion of Christ . • April 23d . Visited a sick Christian and found her in an ecstasy of ...
... evidence that God would pour out his Spirit , and ere long gather souls into the sheep - fold . O may my pray- ers be heard and answered . the religion of Christ . • April 23d . Visited a sick Christian and found her in an ecstasy of ...
Page 72
... evidences of my interest in the Redeemer fled ? Why have supineness and death seized my soul ? My cruel sins have done all this . " Oh wretched man , that I am , who shall de- liver me from the body of this death ? " May my daily prayer ...
... evidences of my interest in the Redeemer fled ? Why have supineness and death seized my soul ? My cruel sins have done all this . " Oh wretched man , that I am , who shall de- liver me from the body of this death ? " May my daily prayer ...
Page 77
... evidence to believe that I received any injury by going into the water yesterday . Let him " who is the health of my countenance " have the glory ; for it is justly his due . 27th . If I am not deceived , my heart exults in the triumphs ...
... evidence to believe that I received any injury by going into the water yesterday . Let him " who is the health of my countenance " have the glory ; for it is justly his due . 27th . If I am not deceived , my heart exults in the triumphs ...
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... evidence of my good estate that I have of hers , I could cheerfully lay my bones by her side , and wait the Arch - angel's trump to arouse me from my slumbers . November 4th . I am conscious to myself of feeling too cold and indifferent ...
... evidence of my good estate that I have of hers , I could cheerfully lay my bones by her side , and wait the Arch - angel's trump to arouse me from my slumbers . November 4th . I am conscious to myself of feeling too cold and indifferent ...
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Page 109 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 89 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 60 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 144 - We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church.
Page 44 - Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Page 15 - Wherefore, of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 13 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 5 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 6 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou ? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Page 79 - Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of ns.