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... gift of prophecy , per- haps it may be said , there never was a period of time more teeming in great events : but I proceed no further on this subject ; let us join with the church in her progress in com- ing up out of the wilderness ...
... gift of prophecy , per- haps it may be said , there never was a period of time more teeming in great events : but I proceed no further on this subject ; let us join with the church in her progress in com- ing up out of the wilderness ...
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... gift : and let no man of superior talents and opportunities , cover his spiritual idleness , under a specious claim to divine inspiration . LETTER IX . 5th Mo. 30th , 1761 . THY observation of the preference of a suffering state to that ...
... gift : and let no man of superior talents and opportunities , cover his spiritual idleness , under a specious claim to divine inspiration . LETTER IX . 5th Mo. 30th , 1761 . THY observation of the preference of a suffering state to that ...
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... gifts and talents of grace , which he had in mercy bestowed upon you , in order for your salvation and redemp- tion . You received an additional gift , which was begotten in you , and under which you travel- led many times in tenderness ...
... gifts and talents of grace , which he had in mercy bestowed upon you , in order for your salvation and redemp- tion . You received an additional gift , which was begotten in you , and under which you travel- led many times in tenderness ...
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... gifts were not of your own procuring , but according to the good pleasure of him who hath the govern- ment of his church upon his own shoulders , he saw meet to intrust you with them , that they might be occupied to the glory of his ...
... gifts were not of your own procuring , but according to the good pleasure of him who hath the govern- ment of his church upon his own shoulders , he saw meet to intrust you with them , that they might be occupied to the glory of his ...
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... gifts may be hid as in obscurity for a season ; in which trying time there is much need of patience , that'there is not an attempting to come forth from the wilderness before the right time , ere the floods be subsided which the dragon ...
... gifts may be hid as in obscurity for a season ; in which trying time there is much need of patience , that'there is not an attempting to come forth from the wilderness before the right time , ere the floods be subsided which the dragon ...
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Page 182 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 63 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 137 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Page 146 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 241 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble he...
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Page 72 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 64 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 162 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.