The merchant evangelist, a memoir of W. M'Gavin1884 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aberfeldy Apocrypha appeared Ardeonaig attend became Ben Lawers Bible called Campbell Catholic chapel character Christ Christian Church Church of Scotland Cobbett congregation Congregationalism controversy conversation Covenanter David Lamb death divine duty Edinburgh evangelistic Ewing faith favour Ferrier Fortingall friends gave gentleman give Glasgow gospel Greenock Haldane happy hear heard Highlands honour interest John labours ladies learned letter Loch Loch Fyne Loch Long Loch Tay London Lord M'Gavin replied Magdalene Asylum means mind minister ministry missionary Moncreiff morning never night Paisley Papists parish pastor persons piety poor Popery Popish preacher preaching Protestant pulpit Reformation religion religious remarkable respect Rosehearty Sabbath says scene Scotland Scots Worthies Scott Scripture Seceders Secession sermon shillings Society spirit Street tell thing tion truth Vindicator wife William M'Gavin word worship writing young M'Gavin
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Página 50 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Página 172 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Página 61 - Much impressed 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.
Página 212 - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; "An honest man's the noblest work. of God;" And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind.
Página 57 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and yc shall find rest for your souls.
Página 31 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 182 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Página 193 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Página 166 - ... conjugal or filial piety to place mine by their side, I have in this undertaking had no motive, I can have had no motive, but a sincere and disinterested love of truth and justice. It is not for the rich and the powerful of my countrymen that I have spoken ; but for the poor, the persecuted, the proscribed. I have not been unmindful of the unpopularity and the prejudice that would attend the enterprise ; but when I considered the long, long triumph of calumny over the religion of those to whom...
Página 101 - ... varied woods, in the bright expanse of the lake, and the minute ornaments of the distant valley, in the rocky and bold summit of Craig Cailleach, and in the lofty vision of Ben Lawers, which towers like a huge giant to the clouds, the monarch of the scene.