The Choice: the Church, Or the Meeting HouseLondon, 1839 - 24 pages |
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... cottage of John Williams . No one could pass the neatly - cut hedgerow , without stopping to admire the little garden in front , where grew the most beautiful flowers , with not a weed to disfigure the nice order and perfect arrangement ...
... cottage of John Williams . No one could pass the neatly - cut hedgerow , without stopping to admire the little garden in front , where grew the most beautiful flowers , with not a weed to disfigure the nice order and perfect arrangement ...
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... cottage filled with dirt , confusion , and litter . One of their favorite maxims was , that " clean- liness was next to godliness , " and on the two they framed the model of their lives . Here , perhaps , it may be well to enter a ...
... cottage filled with dirt , confusion , and litter . One of their favorite maxims was , that " clean- liness was next to godliness , " and on the two they framed the model of their lives . Here , perhaps , it may be well to enter a ...
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... cottage . After taking a chair , she immediately began to inform them of her business : " You are always so kind , Mrs. Williams ( she said ) , in giving your advice , that I thought I would just step in and ask your opinion about a ...
... cottage . After taking a chair , she immediately began to inform them of her business : " You are always so kind , Mrs. Williams ( she said ) , in giving your advice , that I thought I would just step in and ask your opinion about a ...
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... cottage , Mrs. Wil- liams shook her head , and expressed some doubt to her daughter how it might turn out . MARY . " But why , mother , are you afraid that Anne should not do well ? " MRS . WILLIAMS . " Because , my child , she has not ...
... cottage , Mrs. Wil- liams shook her head , and expressed some doubt to her daughter how it might turn out . MARY . " But why , mother , are you afraid that Anne should not do well ? " MRS . WILLIAMS . " Because , my child , she has not ...
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... cottage . Mary hastily threw down her work and ran out to meet her , expressing a lively joy at seeing her , for a warm friendship had subsisted between them , as they had attended the same Sunday School , and the same Church , and the ...
... cottage . Mary hastily threw down her work and ran out to meet her , expressing a lively joy at seeing her , for a warm friendship had subsisted between them , as they had attended the same Sunday School , and the same Church , and the ...
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Page 13 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 18 - But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before, of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Page 14 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel...
Page 23 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Page 13 - And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Page 17 - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Page 11 - Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there ; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders ; insomuch, that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Page 18 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 12 - But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church : but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican.
Page 18 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.