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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... meeting for public worship within nine miles ! When my grandfather Ayres , who was found dead in the pasture , was buried , no prayer was made at his fu- neral !! The neighbors sang Old Hundred , and con- veyed him to the grave . Our ...
... meeting for public worship within nine miles ! When my grandfather Ayres , who was found dead in the pasture , was buried , no prayer was made at his fu- neral !! The neighbors sang Old Hundred , and con- veyed him to the grave . Our ...
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... meeting , in prayer and reading the Bible ; but " refuge failed me . " It was a wet season , and the water ran down the streets abundantly , and as I walked abroad I frequently said to myself , the grace of God runs as freely as this ...
... meeting , in prayer and reading the Bible ; but " refuge failed me . " It was a wet season , and the water ran down the streets abundantly , and as I walked abroad I frequently said to myself , the grace of God runs as freely as this ...
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... meeting , I tarried with them a few days , and cut corn - stalks to pay for some necessary repairs on my shoes , & c . and then pursued my journey on foot to Bos- ton , distance seventy miles . My grand parents and several other ...
... meeting , I tarried with them a few days , and cut corn - stalks to pay for some necessary repairs on my shoes , & c . and then pursued my journey on foot to Bos- ton , distance seventy miles . My grand parents and several other ...
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... meetings were conducted with regu- larity . No appointments of meetings were made ; but the knowledge of the fact that I was accustomed to be at Sylva's house to read , & c . drew the people together . A fruitful season in my religious ...
... meetings were conducted with regu- larity . No appointments of meetings were made ; but the knowledge of the fact that I was accustomed to be at Sylva's house to read , & c . drew the people together . A fruitful season in my religious ...
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... meetings at other houses in the neighborhood ; and the Baptist brethren in the West Parish ( where I heard the Rev. Mr. Gammell preach two Sabbaths in each month ) be- coming acquainted with me , requested me to hold con- ferences among ...
... meetings at other houses in the neighborhood ; and the Baptist brethren in the West Parish ( where I heard the Rev. Mr. Gammell preach two Sabbaths in each month ) be- coming acquainted with me , requested me to hold con- ferences among ...
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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.