Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life, Volumen2

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C. Scribner, 1860

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Página 306 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doetrine; eontinue in them; for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. Though you are a minister, it does not follow that you are a member of Christ. I am sure I speak your own
Página 53 - may interpret." Cox is fond of tinkering about the top of his house and sheds. Greenleaf, seeing him thus aloft, gave him this text to expound: " What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops
Página 307 - A bishop, then, must bo blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teaeh,
Página 193 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus;" so their previous baptism had not been in his name
Página 300 - Christ;" and in the afternoon a sermon by the Editor of these volumes, from 2 Peter i. 15, " Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able, after my
Página 297 - Forsake me not, my God! Uphold me in my going ; That evermore I may Please thee in all well-doing; And that thy will, 0 Lord, May never be forgot In all my works and ways— My God, forsake me not! Forsake me not, my God! I would be thine forever; Confirm me mightily In every right endeavour. And when my hour is
Página 296 - stanzas as these, (translated from German:) Forsake me not, my God, Thou God of my salvation! Give me thy light, to be My sure illumination. My soul to folly turns, Seeking she knows not what; Oh! lead her to thyself— My God, forsake me not! Forsake me not, my God ! Take not thy Spirit from me ; And suffer not the might Of sin to
Página 299 - from the words in Matthew x.xv. 34, " Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." The sympathy felt by Christians of all
Página 306 - the light to shine out of darkness, shall have shined into your heart, to give you the light of the knowledge of the
Página 153 - Lamb wrote many years, but had been altered. Mr. W. showed me his window and where his desk was. I looked out at the high blank wall, not five feet beyond, and understood Lamb's " India House." Mr. W. showed me a 4to volume of Interest Tables, with

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