Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D.: Late Chaplain to the Humane and Criminal Institutions in the City of New-YorkSwords, Stanford, and Company, 1835 - 417 pages |
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... thank my God that I have no rest in it ; but that I am enabled fervently to pray that his grace may in me be suffi- cient and triumphant . From Christ my Redeemer I look for pardon , peace , strength , and all I need . This day my ...
... thank my God that I have no rest in it ; but that I am enabled fervently to pray that his grace may in me be suffi- cient and triumphant . From Christ my Redeemer I look for pardon , peace , strength , and all I need . This day my ...
Page 72
... thank - offering . In reference to the public service in his own church , Mr. Stanford remarks " I believe every heart in the congregation felt the sweet emotions of gratitude , and every tongue praised the delivering hand of God . O ...
... thank - offering . In reference to the public service in his own church , Mr. Stanford remarks " I believe every heart in the congregation felt the sweet emotions of gratitude , and every tongue praised the delivering hand of God . O ...
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... thanks for deliverance , and to dedicate himself to the service of his almighty Pro- tector ; so did Mr. Stanford commence the year 1802 , by reviewing the events of the past , and again com- mitting his body and soul , his family and ...
... thanks for deliverance , and to dedicate himself to the service of his almighty Pro- tector ; so did Mr. Stanford commence the year 1802 , by reviewing the events of the past , and again com- mitting his body and soul , his family and ...
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... thanks for your acceptable present of an excellent cheese . This appears to have been a valuable domestic article many ages since . Little David was sent by Jesse , his father , to carry ten cheeses for the use of his brethren , and the ...
... thanks for your acceptable present of an excellent cheese . This appears to have been a valuable domestic article many ages since . Little David was sent by Jesse , his father , to carry ten cheeses for the use of his brethren , and the ...
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... thank God on your behalf . May the health of your body , and especially the spiritual happiness of your soul , increase still more abundantly . When I read your daughter's letter concerning you , it brought to my mind , the thanksgiving ...
... thank God on your behalf . May the health of your body , and especially the spiritual happiness of your soul , increase still more abundantly . When I read your daughter's letter concerning you , it brought to my mind , the thanksgiving ...
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Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D. D: Late Chaplain to the Humane and ... Charles G. Sommers No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 192 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Page 343 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 120 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 371 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 26 - And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 148 - The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. » The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Page 336 - And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, "Loose him, and let him go.
Page 46 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Page 46 - I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Page 99 - Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee.