Saints and Sinners; Or, In Church and about it, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1868 - Great Britain |
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Page 324 - There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
Page 328 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Page 324 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Page 143 - I take you to record, this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men : for I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God.
Page 171 - Dearly beloved Roger — the Scripture moveth you and me in sundry places,
Page 318 - And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
Page 321 - 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 ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 163 - Queen, when she had several prelates with her, she turned round to her levee, and said, " See here, my lords, is a bishop who does not come for a translation." " No, indeed, and please your majesty," said our good bishop, " I will not leave my wife in my old age because she is poor."— Cruttwell't Life of Bishop Wilson.
Page 284 - Marriages performed with the utmost privacy, decency, and regularity, at the Ancient Royal Chapel of St John the Baptist, in the Savoy, where regular and authentic registers have been kept from the time of the Reformation (being two hundred years and upwards) to this day. The expense not more than one guinea, the five-shilling stamp included. There are five private ways by land to this chapel, and two by water.
Page 323 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice 16* of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.