The Four Gospels, With a Commentary, Vol. 1: Matthew (Classic Reprint)
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The marginal references, commonly embraced in a work of this kind, are excluded on the simple ground that they are so little consulted as to be nearly useless, and also because they are liable, unless most judiciously selected, to foster erroneous associations and interpretations,-and make analogies and connexions between portions of Scripture, where none really exist. The author has endeavored to shun this evil, but cannot hope to have done so entirely,' for it is ingrained into a great-part of the theology of the past. The few references which he has made in the body of the Notes he earnestly begs may be always consulted without excep tion, for they are designed to corroborate his arguments, or illus trate and enforce his conclusions, and may'often shed an unex pected light upon a dark spot. If a Bible is constantly at hand, passages may be referred to without delay, and Scripture made to act_in some degree as a self-interpreter.
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The plant, as grown in different countries and climates, has several species or varieties, though it possesses com mon properties. In Asia it appears to have been used from a remote antiquity, if we may judge by the ancient sculptured pipes, similar to those still employed in China. In America its use is traced back to the mound-builders.
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Physical Education: A Lecture Delivered Before the Teachers of Hamilton and Butler Co. Ohio, On Several Different Occasions
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The Acts of the Apostles: With a Commentary (Classic Reprint)
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The Versions and Editions of Luther, Griesbach, Tyndale by Dabney, 'beza, Sacy, Wakefield, Thomson, Palfrey, the' Catholic Testament, and. The Improved Version.
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The Four Gospels, Vol. 2: With a Commentary; Mark, Luke, and John (Classic Reprint)
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A raw particulars respecting Mark have been gleaned from the New Testament and early ecclesiastical history, but not enough to form a very distinct portrait of his life and character.
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Lectures to Young Men on Their Moral Dangers and Duties (Classic Reprint)
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But it is a difficult task, it must be con fessed, so to address those who are entering on the threshold of manhood as to leave only good impressions, awaken right pur poses, and effectually prompt to high duties. What to say, and what to leave unsaid, how to speak conviction to the understanding and persuasion to the heart, demands no lit tle wisdom. The very directness of an ap peal may recoil upon itself without effect.
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The Epistle to the Hebrews: The Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude, and Divine; With a Commentary and Essays (Classic Reprint)
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The conception of the character of God given in the New Testament is the fountain of the moral and spiritual power of Christianity. This acts with the directness and certainty of an elemental and dynamical force. Revealed by Christ.
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The Marriage Offering: A Compilation Of Prose And Poetry (1848)
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Revelation. And he, whose pen is moved by pulses from a Christian heart, will not fear to question any customs, usages, or laws pertaining to this relic Of barbarism, according to the plain and positive precepts of Christ, and the whole Spirit of his religion. Such is the subject, plan and promise of the following pages; the fulfilment must rest with Him, who deigns to be a co-worker with the humblest of his crea tures for good.
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Abiel Abbot Livermore was an American clergyman, author, and educator. He was a president of the Meadville Theological School from 1863 to 1891.
Background
Abiel Abbot Livermore was born on October 30, 1811 in Wilton, New Hampshire, United States. He was a descendant of John Livermore who in 1634 came to Watertown, Massachusetts, from Ipswich, England. He was the grandson of the Reverend Jonathan Livermore, pastor of the Congregational Church in Wilton, New Hampshire, and son of Jonathan Livermore, a Wilton farmer of high repute, who married Abigail Abbot, daughter of Major Abiel Abbot, a Revolutionary patriot.
Education
Livermore was a student in an academy in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and thereafter in Phillips Exeter Academy until in 1830. Later he was admitted to the sophomore class of Harvard College. In Harvard he roomed with Francis Bowen, the later philosopher, was active in college societies, supported himself by tutoring boys for college entrance, and won high standing for scholarship. From 1833 to 1836 he studied theology study in the Cambridge Divinity School.
Career
Livermore was ordained, November 2, 1836, as pastor of the Congregational Church in Keene, New Hampshire. During this congenial pastorate he was a community leader in the promotion of culture. He served on the school committee, was a trustee of Cheshire Academy, founded a flourishing book and periodical club, stimulated interest in foreign literature, and edited a Social Gazette for the publication of the literary efforts of local young people. In 1841 he published a commentary on Matthew's Gospel which in three years had four editions and was reissued in Belfast, Ireland. By 1844 the work covered four Gospels and the Book of Acts, and in this form was republished in London, 1846.
In 1854 he added a volume on Romans, and in 1881 two more on the rest of the New Testament. The work afforded a moderate liberal interpretation on principles learned in the Cambridge school. At this time he shared in the anti-slavery movement and successfully competed for a prize of five hundred dollars offered by the American Peace Society by a work entitled The War with Mexico Reviewed (1850).
Seeking a milder climate Livermore accepted a call to the Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, serving there from May 26, 1850, to July 6, 1856. To this troubled church he brought stability by his tolerant, inclusive, fraternal spirit, his talent for organization, and the sustained high thinking and literary charm of his preaching. To unite and increase the liberal churches he organized in 1852 the Western Unitarian Conference, serving it as corresponding secretary. In 1856 he was appointed an editor of the Christian Inquirer in New York. Aiding in the organization of a Unitarian Church in Yonkers, New York (1857), he became its settled pastor in June 1859.
In addition to these two offices he served as non-resident lecturer for brief annual periods in the Theological School of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and in 1863 relinquished other duties to become the president of that institution. Conservative as he was by temperament, his new administrative career showed open-minded hospitality to new policies and progressive thought. In 1864 the school was opened to women students. In the autumn of that year he gave twelve lectures in the Lowell Institute in Boston upon Christianity as related to an environment of general religious development and in the following he gave in Meadville a course on comparative religion, sharing with Bouvier of Geneva and James Freeman Clarke of Harvard the distinction of first introducing the subject into the academic curriculum. He made some adjustment of his Biblical teaching to the modern critical views of Kuenen and in his course in ethics dealt with modern social problems. From 1881 there was a rapid development of courses in practical and theoretical sociology in the curriculum.
While president he published Lectures to Young Men on Their Moral Dangers and Duties (1864), completed his New Testament commentary (1881), collaborated with Sewall Putnam in a History of the Town of Wilton (1888), and wrote varied articles for the Unitarian Review (1874 - 1891). Resigning his presidency in 1890 he retired to the ancient hillside home in Wilton and there he died. An oil portrait of Livermore is preserved in the Meadville School, now situated in Chicago.
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Connections
On May 17, 1838, Livermore married his cousin Elizabeth Dorcas Abbot of Windham, New Hampshire, a woman of poetic gift, author of a novel, Zoe, or the Octaroon's Triumph. She died September 13, 1879. On June 18, 1883, he married Mary A. (Keating) Moore of Meadville who survived him. He had no children.