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 18
... remarks to my mother which were blessed to her hopeful con- version . This she afterwards acknowledged to me with apparent humility . I immediately commenced a jour- ney to Boston . All the spare garments I had were con- veyed in a ...
... remarks to my mother which were blessed to her hopeful con- version . This she afterwards acknowledged to me with apparent humility . I immediately commenced a jour- ney to Boston . All the spare garments I had were con- veyed in a ...
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... , and the wound was at length healed by the blood of Christ . " From these and some other remarks I was led to think Sylva might be an experimental Christian . I took the earliest opportunity ( I think it was the samé REV . DR . DAVIS . 19.
... , and the wound was at length healed by the blood of Christ . " From these and some other remarks I was led to think Sylva might be an experimental Christian . I took the earliest opportunity ( I think it was the samé REV . DR . DAVIS . 19.
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... remarks on what I had read . One day Sylva inquired of me if it would be agreeable to invite Miss H. L. , a pious young woman , who used to read to her before I came into town , to be present on these occasions . I gave my consent , and ...
... remarks on what I had read . One day Sylva inquired of me if it would be agreeable to invite Miss H. L. , a pious young woman , who used to read to her before I came into town , to be present on these occasions . I gave my consent , and ...
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... remark that no man ever sought with more eager- ness the means of knowledge , and no one ever improved to better advantage those which he did enjoy . But his feelings and views and progress in regard to this subject will be perceived ...
... remark that no man ever sought with more eager- ness the means of knowledge , and no one ever improved to better advantage those which he did enjoy . But his feelings and views and progress in regard to this subject will be perceived ...
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... remark that for the whole of this period , I found her an unde- viating , honourable , and affectionate friend . During this year , I visited Maine , and formed a very agreeable acquaintance with several Baptist ministers in connexion ...
... remark that for the whole of this period , I found her an unde- viating , honourable , and affectionate friend . During this year , I visited Maine , and formed a very agreeable acquaintance with several Baptist ministers in connexion ...
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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.