Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions, Volume 1R. Morison, junior, 1794 - 377 pages |
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... person , or tranfaction , fhould be given in a concise , lively , clofe , pathetic manner , accom- panied with such moral reflections as arise from the feveral circumstances , and may best instruct the hearers . " A preacher ought to ...
... person , or tranfaction , fhould be given in a concise , lively , clofe , pathetic manner , accom- panied with such moral reflections as arise from the feveral circumstances , and may best instruct the hearers . " A preacher ought to ...
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... a king and governor may fay us and we , there is certainly no figure of speech , that will al- low any fingle person to say , " One of us , " when he + 1 he fpeaks only of himself . It is a phrase 18 THE CREATION OF MAN .
... a king and governor may fay us and we , there is certainly no figure of speech , that will al- low any fingle person to say , " One of us , " when he + 1 he fpeaks only of himself . It is a phrase 18 THE CREATION OF MAN .
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... persons , and give glory to the Father , ` to the Son , and to the Holy Ghost , we do as it was done in the beginning , is now , and ever - fhall be . Proceed we to confider the materials , of which : man was compofed . " The word of ...
... persons , and give glory to the Father , ` to the Son , and to the Holy Ghost , we do as it was done in the beginning , is now , and ever - fhall be . Proceed we to confider the materials , of which : man was compofed . " The word of ...
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... person was to vifit Jerufalem who fhould deferve to be emphatically ftyled " her King . " The nations had their kings and conquer- ors , their Nebuchadnezzars and Cyrus's , their A- lexanders and Cæfars ; thefe appeared , in their turns ...
... person was to vifit Jerufalem who fhould deferve to be emphatically ftyled " her King . " The nations had their kings and conquer- ors , their Nebuchadnezzars and Cyrus's , their A- lexanders and Cæfars ; thefe appeared , in their turns ...
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... person and reign of Meffiah . Righteouf- nefs leads the way . He is juft , or righteous . " St Stephen , in his apology to the Jews , affirmeth the prophets to have forefhewn the coming of Je- fus , under the title of the Juft One ...
... person and reign of Meffiah . Righteouf- nefs leads the way . He is juft , or righteous . " St Stephen , in his apology to the Jews , affirmeth the prophets to have forefhewn the coming of Je- fus , under the title of the Juft One ...
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