Memoir of the Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D.D.Packard, Van Benthuysen and Company, 1838 - 270 pages |
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... bring to friends by this relinquishment , stood full before me . And yet with all this sacrifice on the one hand , and all this contempt on the other , I chose to be a minister . I hugged the cross . And though the age of missions had ...
... bring to friends by this relinquishment , stood full before me . And yet with all this sacrifice on the one hand , and all this contempt on the other , I chose to be a minister . I hugged the cross . And though the age of missions had ...
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... bring home his long lost wandering sheep . May the pains of absence teach me to wander no more . Alas , how have new relations , and the new cares of a family state , drawn my mind away from God . There are more dangers in every ...
... bring home his long lost wandering sheep . May the pains of absence teach me to wander no more . Alas , how have new relations , and the new cares of a family state , drawn my mind away from God . There are more dangers in every ...
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... bring my mind to any point ; that , by a retrospective survey of my exercises , I may always have before my eyes the summary of the evidence in favor of my adoption . In this part of my memoirs I resolve to observe , if possible , a ...
... bring my mind to any point ; that , by a retrospective survey of my exercises , I may always have before my eyes the summary of the evidence in favor of my adoption . In this part of my memoirs I resolve to observe , if possible , a ...
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... bring my mind to any point ; that , by a retrospective survey of my exercises , I may always have before my eyes the summary of the evidence in favor of my adoption . In this part of my memoirs I resolve to observe , if possible , a ...
... bring my mind to any point ; that , by a retrospective survey of my exercises , I may always have before my eyes the summary of the evidence in favor of my adoption . In this part of my memoirs I resolve to observe , if possible , a ...
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... bring it out to view , in order to exalt God in the esteem of men , to show them what ground of everlasting joy there is , to prepare them to enjoy the good which is within their reach , and to prepare them , by proper exercises towards ...
... bring it out to view , in order to exalt God in the esteem of men , to show them what ground of everlasting joy there is , to prepare them to enjoy the good which is within their reach , and to prepare them , by proper exercises towards ...
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Page 169 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ...
Page 156 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven ; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Page 158 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 170 - FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 170 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 52 - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Page 132 - Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms.
Page 159 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 150 - Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 156 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?