but the Publican, who stood a good way lower, not daring to lift up even his eyes to heaven, only smote his breast, and said, O God, be merciful to me, who am a sinner.

Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!

believe, said they, on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you, and your family.

remonstrating both to Jews and Gentiles the advantages of a sincere repentance, and of believing

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

wherefore it is said in the scripture, I lay in Sion the principal stone of the angle, a choice one of great value: he that

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God: and every one that loves the father, will likewise be affected with love to his son.

When

moreover I declare unto you, whoever shall acknowledge me before men, him shall the son of man also own before the angels of God.

Nathanael answered, rabbi, thou art the son of God, thou art the king of Israel.

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

Thy

was not the Messiah to have suffer'd thus, and after that enter into his glory?

when the spirit of Christ inform'd the minds of the prophets of his future sufferings, and of the glorious consequences, they were solicitous to know the circumstances of the times pointed at:

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for every one that asks, does receive: he that seeks, does find: and he that knocks at the door, is admitted.

At the same time, two robbers were crucified with him: one on his right hand, the other on his left.