The Land of Sinim: Or an Exposition of Isaiah XLIX. 12 Together with a Brief Account of the Jews and Christians in China

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W.S. Martin, 1850 - 147 Seiten
 

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Seite 11 - Behold, these shall come from far : and, lo, these from the north and from the west ; and these from the land of Sinim.
Seite 133 - And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease, among the people.
Seite 30 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their fulness?
Seite 10 - I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth— everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Seite 24 - Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing, O mountains : for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Seite 46 - It is now twelve years since I have heard any news from the West. I am become old and grayheaded, but it is rather through labors and tribulations than through age, for I am only fiftyeight years old. I have learned the Tartar language and literature, into which I have translated the whole New Testament and the Psalms of David, and have caused them to be transcribed with the utmost care. I write and read and preach openly and freely the testimony of the law of Christ.
Seite 71 - And therefore St. Stephen prayed, with his last breath, " Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this, — Love tolerating intolerance ; Charity covering, as with a veil, even the sin of the lack of charity.
Seite 126 - God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them
Seite 50 - The rulers found in him a man full of complaisance ; the pagans a minister who accommodated himself to their superstitions; the mandarins a polite courtier, skilled in all the trickery of court; and the devil a faithful servant, who far from destroying, established his reign among the heathen, and even extended it to the Christians.
Seite 125 - Neither is there Salvation in any other, ' for there is no other Name under Heaven given among Men, ' whereby we must be saved,

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