Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 7-81849 |
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... learned from these events . In them , unless I mistake , we may perceive manifest traces of that retributive justice which so often displays itself in the history of nations , and affords lessons which individuals may legibly read ...
... learned from these events . In them , unless I mistake , we may perceive manifest traces of that retributive justice which so often displays itself in the history of nations , and affords lessons which individuals may legibly read ...
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... learned that this is the Christian Sabbath , to cease from your own works as God did from his ? that the word you have heard in Church will condemn you if you have not been doers of it ; that your prayers will rise up in judgment ...
... learned that this is the Christian Sabbath , to cease from your own works as God did from his ? that the word you have heard in Church will condemn you if you have not been doers of it ; that your prayers will rise up in judgment ...
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... learned and judicious divines have adopted upon points so inter- esting ; and a minister may , therefore , be most profitably employed in condensing into easy " Popular Readings , " the results of his own more extensive and elaborate ...
... learned and judicious divines have adopted upon points so inter- esting ; and a minister may , therefore , be most profitably employed in condensing into easy " Popular Readings , " the results of his own more extensive and elaborate ...
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... learned than themselves , and whom it may be , they have hired as reader to the corps ; and we find that what is read to them with a nervously excited manner , and a sharp wild ac- cent , is an inflammatory article from the Northern ...
... learned than themselves , and whom it may be , they have hired as reader to the corps ; and we find that what is read to them with a nervously excited manner , and a sharp wild ac- cent , is an inflammatory article from the Northern ...
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... learned , and the powerful of public life - till the eventful career was completed , and his remains were borne- " Thro ' breathing statues , those unheeded things ; Thro ' rows of warriors , and thro ' walks of kings , " to their ...
... learned , and the powerful of public life - till the eventful career was completed , and his remains were borne- " Thro ' breathing statues , those unheeded things ; Thro ' rows of warriors , and thro ' walks of kings , " to their ...
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Page 290 - It Is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord : and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High; To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning: and thy faithfulness every night.
Page 431 - I profess likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead. And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 408 - ... reading, (but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books.
Page 74 - Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
Page 171 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 74 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 318 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 364 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 65 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 79 - Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.