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Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘It came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.’—NEH. i. 4.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 27: 1881 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The principal wheat." Isaiah 28:25. THE whole passage runs on this wise—"Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground? When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Now I pass over other things in silence, glorifying the Lord. But I affirm that gnostic souls, that surpass in the grandeur of contemplation the mode of life of each of the holy ranks,…
Nature and Causes of Apostasy from the Gospel by Owen, John (1616-1683)
of all sorts of persons, in the prevalency of apostasy from the truth and decays in the practice of evangelical holiness. The last part of this discourse is designed for cautions unto those who yet stand, or think they stand,…
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans and Corinthians by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.’—2 COR. v. 8. There lie in the words of my text simply these two things; the Christian view of what death is, and the Christian temper in which to anticipate it.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by Farrar, Frederic William (1831-1903)
CHAPTER III PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTORIC SECTION No one can have studied the Book of Daniel without seeing that, alike in the character of its miracles and the minuteness of its supposed predictions, it makes a more stupendous and a less substantiated claim upon our credence than any other book of the Bible,…
History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey (1830-1907)
IT was not wholly dark in American Christendom before the dawn of the Great Awakening. The censoriousness which was the besetting sin of the evangelists in that great religious movement, the rhetorical temptation to glorify the revival by intensifying the contrast with the antecedent condition,…
Doctrinal Divinity by Gill, John (1697-1771)
Chapter 5 Of Other Eternal And Immanent Acts In God, Particularly Adoption And Justification. I shall not here treat of these as doctrines, in the full extent of them; or as blessings of grace actually bestowed upon, and enjoyed by believers, with all the privileges and advantages arising from thence; or as transient acts passing on them, and terminating in their consciences at believing;…
Marrow of Modern Divinity by Fisher, Edward (1627-1655)
Of the Law of Faith, or Covenant of Grace Ant. I beseech you, sir, proceed to help us to the true knowledge of the law of faith. Evan. The law of faith is as much as to say the covenant of grace, or the gospel, which signifies good, merry, glad, and joyful tidings; that is to say, that God, to whose eternal knowledge all things are present, and nothing past or to come, foreseeing man's fall,…
History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. Comp. §§ 17 and 45 (this vol.). Sources: I. The Epistles. W. Cureton: The Ancient Syriac Version of the Epistles of S. Ignatius to S. Polycarp, the Ephesians, and the Romans.