The Baptisms of the New Testament: Illustrations of the Ordinance from Its Administrations as Recorded by the Inspired WritersAmerican Baptist Publication Society, 1848 - 204 pages |
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... servant of the Most High , and calling on men of all classes to abandon their sins , to change their feelings and their conduct towards God and man , and to expect the coming of Messiah , for whose manifestation he was daily looking ...
... servant of the Most High , and calling on men of all classes to abandon their sins , to change their feelings and their conduct towards God and man , and to expect the coming of Messiah , for whose manifestation he was daily looking ...
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... servant , improperly made , but the motive of which his Lord well understood ? He does not deny his own dignity , nor does he reproach John for his backwardness in the performance of his duty . Neither does he change his design , but ...
... servant , improperly made , but the motive of which his Lord well understood ? He does not deny his own dignity , nor does he reproach John for his backwardness in the performance of his duty . Neither does he change his design , but ...
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... servant of God leading Messiah into the deep waters of the river ; read the counte- nance of each , how impressive is every fea- ture , how instructive every look ! Jesus has no sins to confess , but he feels the vast load of our ...
... servant of God leading Messiah into the deep waters of the river ; read the counte- nance of each , how impressive is every fea- ture , how instructive every look ! Jesus has no sins to confess , but he feels the vast load of our ...
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... servants serve him day and night continually ; " and well has it been said by one of our own poets : — " A God inactive were a God unblest . " No sooner had Jesus , by holy baptism , entered on his life of public obedience to God , 3 ...
... servants serve him day and night continually ; " and well has it been said by one of our own poets : — " A God inactive were a God unblest . " No sooner had Jesus , by holy baptism , entered on his life of public obedience to God , 3 ...
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... servants . While Jesus and his immediate attendants were thus laboring in one place , John was preaching and baptizing at another ; thus extending the common cause to which all were devoted . The place of John's labors . was a small ...
... servants . While Jesus and his immediate attendants were thus laboring in one place , John was preaching and baptizing at another ; thus extending the common cause to which all were devoted . The place of John's labors . was a small ...
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Page 95 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave, and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shalt be ; Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known, Yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are still my own...
Page 126 - Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we ? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.
Page 153 - And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Page 57 - May he by whose kind care we meet, Send his good Spirit from above, Make our communications sweet, And cause our hearts to burn with love. 3 Forgotten be each worldly theme, When Christians see each other thus ; We only wish to speak of him Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.
Page 89 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Page 183 - Yet if I might make some reserve, And duty did not call, I love my God with zeal so great That I should give him all.
Page 11 - Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the Apostle's arm And drew him gently to the midst. The wood Was thick with the dim twilight as they came Up from the water. With his clasped hands...
Page 170 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 11 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 15 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men ; and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John ; the same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.