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... a thoughtful and rather reticent man; brought up a Socinian, and professedly such still. I am trying to lay siege to him, not without merciful tokens of hope from the Lord. And the simple plan is, not to open the controversy between Socinus and Scripture, but to arrange that each visit shall have its short Scripture reading, its friendly ...

— To My Younger Brethren - Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work • Handley C. G. Moule

... miracle of nations entering the kingdom of God, before we can dismiss the black death of apathy which rests on so many professedly Christian communities, before we can dominate the social structure in righteousness and justice, the Church must be raised nearer to the standards of New Testament efficiency. And New Testament efficiency rested upon the perfect divinity and all-persuasive mediatorship of "Christ and him ...

— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various

... however, many ecclesiastical dogmas professedly taken from the Bible, against which good men, and earnest ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... misdeeds of Aziru which are here referred to were committed at the time he was in Tunip, professedly protecting it against Hittite attack. It would seem from what Akizzi says, that instead of faithfully performing his mission, he had aimed at establishing his own power in Northern Syria. While nominally ...

— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce

... into the nave. We found it very grand, it is needless to say, but not so grand, methought, as the vast nave of York Cathedral, especially beneath the great central tower of the latter. Unless a writer intends a professedly architectural description, there is but one set of phrases in which to talk of all the cathedrals in England, and elsewhere. They are alike in their great features: an acre or two of stone flags for a pavement; rows of vast columns supporting a vaulted roof at a dusky ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

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