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Accepted In The Beloved
When Jacob was about to meet his offended brother Esau, he was greatly afraid and distressed. He sends a present to appease his wrath, before he durst venture into his presence. ‘Peradventure he will accept of me,’ says he. Gen. 32:20. Now his hope was not founded on the affection of his brother, but upon the favour which his present…
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And The Spirit Of God Moved Upon The Face Of The Waters
Dear friends, you have just sung that “God moves.” (Hymn 320). And when God moves, something is always done. It was so in this chapter. Every time the dear Spirit moved, and God spoke, something came to pass. It is very trying and troubling to God’s people when He does not seem to move and when He seems to be…
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The Life And Ministry Of E. W. Bullinger
The honoured secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society was well known to most of our readers, for it was through his efforts that doors were opened for the Society in the Particular Baptist communities throughout the country. Dr. Bullinger was, by common consent, one of the most learned men of his day in the ancient languages of the East—the tongues…
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The Life And Ministry Of Joseph Cannon
He was born at Offley, Herts., and, like all the rest of Adam's posterity, soon manifested that the heart is corrupt. At an early age he ran away from home, and got to London. He was standing under a bridge at 4 o'clock in the morning, when a dairyman, seeing him, asked him what he was doing there? He told…
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Godliness Is Profitable Unto All Things
While under the law, we naturally think, for so much work, so much wages. God will be faithful to his word of promise, if we perform those terms and conditions he requires of us. Such are the notions of a legal spirit; they are the result of pride, they swell with a vain conceit of doing something to make God…
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The Everlasting Gospel
These are three extremely well-known words. They have become almost part of our spiritual vocabulary, and often in prayer or in preaching or in conversation when the gospel is referred to, it is referred to as “the everlasting gospel.” Now this is a strange place to find these beautiful words, Revelation chapter 14. Mind you, there are some very beautiful…
