Hints from a minister to his curate, for the management of his parish [by sir J. Stonhouse]. |
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Page 48 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 5 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Page 3 - Time that you fliew the practical Ufes, of large Portions of Scripture at once : for Inftance, of a Parable, a Converfation, a Miracle of our blefled Lord; or a Narration concerning this or that other memorable Perfon, whether defervingof Praifeor Blame.
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Page viii - Turn away from this (hocking fcene, and obferve on the right hand of the Son of man a faithful paftor. Poffibly his dying words were words of triumph and tranfport : " This is my rejoicing, the teftimony of " my confcience, that in fimplicity and godly fincerity^ " not with flefhly wifdom, but by the grace of God, " I have had my converfation in the world.
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| Title | Hints from a minister to his curate, for the management of his parish [by sir J. Stonhouse]. |
| Author | sir James Stonhouse (10th bart.) |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | John, Francis and Charles Rivington, 1776 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Apr 23, 2007 |
| Length | 48 pages |
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