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History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume IV. by Bangs, Nathan (1778-1862)
CHAPTER 14 From the close of the General Conference of 1836 to the commencement of the General Conference of 1840 From the numbers taken at the several annual conferences, and published in Cincinnati, it was ascertained that there was a diminution in the aggregate number of Church members for this year,…
Abstract of Systematic Theology by Boyce, James Petigru (1827-1888)
... , what strength could he gain in such an act? Upon the supposition of a human soul, the presence ...
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Luke by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36. And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.’—LUKE xii. 35, 36. These words ought to stir us like the sound of a trumpet.
Evidences of the Christian Religion by Alexander, Archibald (1772-1851)
CHAPTER VII. `THE MIRACLES OF THE GOSPEL ARE CREDIBLE. HAVING shown, in the preceding chapter, that miracles may be so attested as to be credible, I come now to examine the evidence by which the miraculous facts recorded in the New Testament, may be established.
Story of Prophets and Kings by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Chapter 58 The Coming of a Deliverer Through the long centuries of “trouble and darkness” and “dimness of anguish” (Isaiah 8:22) marking the history of mankind from the day our first parents lost their Eden home, to the time the Son of God appeared as the Saviour of sinners,…
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 4 Of the Nature of God There is a nature that belongs to every creature, which is difficult to understand; and so to God, the Creator, which is most difficult of all: that “Nature” may be predicated of God, is what the apostle suggests when he says, the Galatians, before conversion, served them, who, “by nature, were no gods”, (Gal.
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Pastor of Hermas by hermas
Chap. I. After I had written down the commandments and similitudes of the Shepherd, the angel of repentance, he came to me and said,…
Sermons on Proverbs by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... you. There is a blessing in the very act of waiting upon God, and out of it comes this ...
Christian View of God and the World by Orr, James (1844-1913)
In the original plan of these Lectures it was my intention to include a Lecture on “The Incarnation and the New Life of Humanity; the Kingdom of God,” which would have found its fitting place between the eighth and what is now the ninth.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... it an apostolate, for you are to act as apostles in the midst of a perverse world. You ...