A Memoir of James Parnell, with Extracts from His Writings

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C. Gilpin, 1846 - 124 Seiten
 

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Seite 65 - 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.
Seite 36 - I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me ; Rev. iii. 20. and we witness him faithful : and as many as receive him, to them he gives power to become the sons of God ; and this is the condemnation of all, because they believe not in Him. John xii.
Seite 13 - Parnell, a little lad of about sixteen years of age, came to see me, and was convinced: and the Lord quickly made him a powerful minister of the word of life, and many were turned to Christ by him...
Seite 113 - Lord is come to visit you. . . 0, mind the secret sprigs and tender plants. Now you are called to dress the garden. Let not the weeds and wild plants remain. Peevishness is a weed ; anger is a weed ; self-love and self-will are weeds ; pride is a wild plant ; covetousness is a wild plant ; lightness and vanity are wild plants, and lust is the root of all. And these things have had a room in your...
Seite 28 - John i. 27. AND thou who art willing to follow this, and to be guided by this, shalt need no man to teach thee, but it will be a teacher unto thee, teaching and directing thee in righteousness, purity, and holiness ; and if thou art diligent, keeping thy mind within, with an ear open to the pure voice, thou shalt find it present with thee wheresoever thou art, in the fields, in thy bed, in markets, in company, or wheresoever thou art. When thy outward priest or teacher is absent or far off, it will...
Seite 113 - Therefore, stand not idle, but come into the vineyard and work. Your work shall be to watch, and keep out the fowls of the air, the unclean beasts, the wild bears, and the subtle foxes. And He that is the Husbandman, will pluck up the wild plants and weeds, and make defence about the vines ; He will tell you what to do ; He, who is Father of the vineyard, will be nigh you. Now, read within, or you will stumble : and what is not clear unto you, wait for the fulfilling : ' he that believeth, maketh...
Seite 42 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Seite 68 - Power, had opened a door of entrance among them, as well as a door of utterance unto them. James Parnel had been instrumental to convince divers in those parts that summer, before his imprisonment at Colchester ; and by his testimony and living ministry, divers professors were shaken, and at a loss in their professions and notions which they had gathered in their heads, without experience of a true heart work by the Power of Christ : for profession and talk of religion and church, did greatly abound...

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