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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 06: 1860 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Oh love the Lord, all you His saints." Psalm 31:23. LOVE Jehovah—so the text runs. God the Father demands your love, and He deserves the warmest affection of your hearts.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Numbers by Watson, Robert Alexander (1845-1921)
I INTRODUCTORY To summon from the past and reproduce with any detail the story of Israel's life in the desert is now impossible. The outlines alone remain, severe, careless of almost everything that does not bear on religion.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Abraham The original form of the name, Abram, is apparently the Assyrian Abu-ramu. It is doubtful if the usual meaning attached to that word "lofty father", is correct.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 29: 1883 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 20: 1874 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
’s-Day Morning, August 23rd, 1874, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington ‘And he arose, and came to his father.’Luke 15:20. THIS SENTENCE EXPRESSES the true turning point in the prodigal’s life story.
Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages by Neander, Augustus Johann (1789-1850)
BONIFACE, or Winfried, as they called him in Anglo-Saxon, born at Crediton in Devonshire, in 680, deserves to be honoured as the father of the German Church, although he was by no means the first who brought the seeds of the Gospel to Germany.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 26: 1880 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The disciple whom Jesus loved; who also leaned on His breast at supper." John 21:20. Our Lord loved all His disciples—"having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." He said to all the Apostles, "I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his Lord does: but I have called you Friends;…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Roger, the twelfth and last of the sons of Tancred, had been long detained in Normandy by his own and his father' age. He accepted the welcome summons; hastened to the Apulian camp; and deserved at first the esteem, and afterwards the envy, of his elder brother.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 42: 1896 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Who gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory forever and ever.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? Behold, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave Me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me." John 16:31,32.