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... church ; and a little sexton , with a rusty key , shows you the baptismal font , or the coffin . In the churchyard are a few flowers , and much green grass ; and daily the shadow of the church - spire , with its long tapering finger ...
... church ; and a little sexton , with a rusty key , shows you the baptismal font , or the coffin . In the churchyard are a few flowers , and much green grass ; and daily the shadow of the church - spire , with its long tapering finger ...
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... church ) in the neighborhood of the pulpit . The rest of the seats are probably coeval with the church , being regular benches , all alike , with a low backboard to each . Pews , that so much de- form our Protestant churches , were not ...
... church ) in the neighborhood of the pulpit . The rest of the seats are probably coeval with the church , being regular benches , all alike , with a low backboard to each . Pews , that so much de- form our Protestant churches , were not ...
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... church of Rome , though they have not been wanting to banish it out of the world , having ex- punged St. Paul's name out of some ancient manuscripts , as the learned Bishop Usher has , to their shame , sufficiently discovered to the ...
... church of Rome , though they have not been wanting to banish it out of the world , having ex- punged St. Paul's name out of some ancient manuscripts , as the learned Bishop Usher has , to their shame , sufficiently discovered to the ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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