An Earnest Ministry, the Want of the TimesM.W. Dodd, 1849 - 288 pages |
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Page 172 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,...
Page 164 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 90 - For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Page 135 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 170 - Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Page 107 - Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
Page 89 - warning every man, and teaching every man, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ;" that is, perfect in the religion of Christ, or a perfect Christian.
Page 278 - The carnal mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Page 45 - For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace!
Page 73 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom : but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness : but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.