The design, rights, and duties of local churches: a sermon delivered at the installation of the Rev. Elias Cornelius as associate pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, July 21, 1819Printed by Flagg and Gould, and sold by H. Whipple, Salem, 1819 - 54 pages |
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... dear objects of her care. But how can those who give not up themselves to God, give up their children ? or how can those^ who do not perform themselves the duties of religion, engage to command their household after them, to fear the ...
... dear objects of her care. But how can those who give not up themselves to God, give up their children ? or how can those^ who do not perform themselves the duties of religion, engage to command their household after them, to fear the ...
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... dear Brother, I rejoice in your establishment as a pastor of this respectable church, in alliance with our beloved Brother, called to devote himself to the more extended concerns of the Redeemer's kingdom. I rejoice in the prospect of ...
... dear Brother, I rejoice in your establishment as a pastor of this respectable church, in alliance with our beloved Brother, called to devote himself to the more extended concerns of the Redeemer's kingdom. I rejoice in the prospect of ...
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... dear Sir, that you have felt all this ; and that you this day feel it most deeply. If so, you will also deeply feel the importance of taking heed to yourself that your heart be evermore humble, penitent, devoted, being kept continually ...
... dear Sir, that you have felt all this ; and that you this day feel it most deeply. If so, you will also deeply feel the importance of taking heed to yourself that your heart be evermore humble, penitent, devoted, being kept continually ...
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... dear Brother, to all this flock, to the aged and the young, the professing and non-professing, the serious and the thoughtless. Take heed, that whatever is good among them be cherished and strengthened ; and whatever is evil ...
... dear Brother, to all this flock, to the aged and the young, the professing and non-professing, the serious and the thoughtless. Take heed, that whatever is good among them be cherished and strengthened ; and whatever is evil ...
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... dear the reciprocated confidence, of which it is assured. This mutual and affectionate confidence must be preserved inviolate, as a perpetual security against any other strife than of love and good works. But there is another and a ...
... dear the reciprocated confidence, of which it is assured. This mutual and affectionate confidence must be preserved inviolate, as a perpetual security against any other strife than of love and good works. But there is another and a ...
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Page 12 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 40 - Put on as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 13 - But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Page 13 - Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Page 52 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 3 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 34 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 12 - Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice : and the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people...
Page 13 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Page 6 - Bible, that she is called the salt of the earth, the light of the "world, and the pillar and ground of the truth.