Sweet First-fruits: A Tale of the Nineteenth Century on the Truth and Virtue of the Christian Religion

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Religious Tract Society, 1893 - 176 pages
 

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Page 147 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Page 144 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed ; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south ; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 147 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 119 - His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns ; and He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself. And He was clothed in a vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God.
Page 140 - They say, Unless a sign be sent down unto him from his lord, we will not believe: Answer; Signs are in the power of God alone...
Page v - It is a first-fruits of what we may expect from the reformation now so steadily spreading among the Eastern Churches ; and as such, may take the highest rank in apologetic literature, being beyond question one of the most powerful treatises on the claims of Christianity that has ever been addressed to the Mahometan world. It is singular, also, as a work which only a native Christian could accomplish — one who, though born and bred in the East, has cast aside the corruptions of an effete ecclesiasticism,...
Page xvi - Jesus, son of Mary, hast thou said unto men, Take me and my mother for two Gods besides God ? He shall answer, ' Praise be unto Thee,' it is not for me to say that which I ought not.
Page xvi - O Jesus, son of Mary, hast thou said unto men, Take me and my mother for two gods, beside God ? He shall answer, Praise be unto thee! it is not for me to say that which I ought not...
Page 145 - We gave unto the children of ISRAEL the book of the law, and wisdom, and prophecy ; and we fed them with good things, and preferred them above all nations : and we gave them plain ordinances concerning the business of religion...
Page 176 - THE END. Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. DUNROBIN CASTLE. [.Reduced from Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By SG GREEN, DD, Author of "English Pictures,' "French Pictures,

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