| Edward Edwards (of Marsden.) - 1837 - 170 pagina’s
...dignity and to how weighty an office and charge ye * Ezek. xxxiv. 4, &c. are called ; that is to say, to be messengers, watchmen, and stewards of the Lord ; to teach and premonish, to feed and provide for the Lord's family ; to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pagina’s
...remembrance, into how high a Dignity, and to how weighty an Office and Charge ye are called : that is to say, to be Messengers, Watchmen, and Stewards of the Lord...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever. Have always therefore printed in your... | |
| 1838 - 668 pagina’s
...faithful and elect people." In the ordination service, " she is very bold," and saith, their office is to " seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad,...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world." Nor in her other services is she a whit behind this testimony, especially in the burial... | |
| 1838 - 950 pagina’s
...character was the pious tenant of the humble cot which I discovered while perambulating the parish, " to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad, and for his children that arc in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever."* Maria... | |
| 1839 - 836 pagina’s
...place left for error in religion, or for viciousness of life." Can a man who has undertaken " to seek and provide for the Lord's family : to seek for Christ's...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever ;" sit down contentedly with ministering... | |
| 1839 - 742 pagina’s
...impertinence, and I know not how a Christian minister, who is bound by the very tenour of his office " to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad,...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever," can conscientiously acquit himself... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 382 pagina’s
...but I engaged most solemnly and. earnestly, "as a messenger, a watchman, and a steward of the Lord, to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad,...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever." And yet we are to be told that the... | |
| George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1839 - 564 pagina’s
...choice no longer, as now, in their own power ; themselves no longer their own, but Christ's only, " sent to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad,...and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever." May they, may we, may all who are entrusted... | |
| 1839 - 498 pagina’s
...of March, 1S17, I set oil' for the western country, there to seek, according to my ordinationvows, for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad, and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they might be saved by him for ever. I went out, scarce knowing whither I went... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1839 - 672 pagina’s
...faithful." Our charge and stewardship is to watch for souls, ' to seek for Christ's sheep that arc dispersed abroad, and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ forever.' They will not be brought home to the... | |
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