 | 1818 - 588 pàgines
...in the evening of that day, about ten o'clock, he died. The next evening he was buried with sieging on the way, and exhortation and prayer at the grave...of devils, and the same man praying to the God and Fa- ther of our Lord Jesus Christ, and worshipping the true God in I spirit and in truth ! What a difference... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pàgines
...him in Christ ' reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.' 1 was turned ' from dumb idols to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven.' No longer asking, Who will show me any good ! ' The Lord is my portion,'... | |
 | 1849 - 518 pàgines
...of the conscience. But now — as to the point with which I set out — We were, beloved brethren, "turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven." To serve Him as individuals most surely has each of us been called;... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pàgines
...writing to the Thessalouians, whose faith was spread abroad everywhere, praises them for having been turned from dumb idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven. Not the Son of man, but " His Son," the Son of God, — two titles... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1855 - 476 pàgines
...from Him they thus would learn them, and take no man's word rather than his own. To them that have turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, the apostle of the Gentiles writes — "Yourselves know perfectly... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pàgines
...anything, for they themselves show of us whs* fflanojr of entering in we had among you, and how ye turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, even Jesus that delivered us from the wrath to come." It was the turning... | |
 | Joseph Denham Smith - 1865 - 300 pàgines
...what the Apostle refers to, when he says, " Ye show what manner of entering in we had unto you, how ye turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for hi* Son from heaven." Paul could have said, I did not compromise any truth ; I did not... | |
 | 1867 - 398 pàgines
...for daily preaching to the heathen. I am thankful to say there are now in Ningpo not a few who have turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and much blessing has followed the daily preaching of our Missionaries. The wife of one Missionary has... | |
 | 1875 - 220 pàgines
...by God Himself, in His own way. Some of those who once worshipped these idols before you, are now " turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from Heaven." But there is one feature of the work which I must not pass over —... | |
 | William Nixon - 1882 - 494 pàgines
...saved from becoming, like their fathers, victims of debasing and cruel superstition and idolatry, and turned from dumb idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven. Here are those who were brought out of the spiritual Babylon, and... | |
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Rwghoo's age is supposed to have been about sixty years. How rich is that grace displayed in the conversion of this person, once living in idolatry, and all its attendant abominations ! How great the contrast betwixt the idolater, dancing in indecent... 
