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He speaks of Thomas Hooker as having "_angled_ many scores of souls into the kingdom of heaven," anagrammatizes Mr.. Hutchinson's surname into "the non-such;" and having occasion to speak of Mr. Urian Oakes's election to the presidency of Harvard College, enlarges upon the circumstance as follows:
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He speaks of Thomas Hooker as having "_angled_ many scores of souls into the kingdom of heaven," anagrammatizes Mr.. Hutchinson's surname into "the non-such;" and having occasion to speak of Mr. Urian Oaks's election to the presidency of Harvard College, enlarges upon the circumstance as follows:
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Its one passenger was to be a non-such in history.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867
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Run through the galleries of heaven, and find out that He is _a non-such_.
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Christianity: "It is good to be zealously affected in good things;" nay, it seems to be the non-such qualification for obtaining eternal life; "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856
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Christ was a non-such preacher; he did not preach as the scribes, who expounded the law of Moses by rote, as a school-boy says his lesson, but were neither acquainted with it (Paul himself, when a Pharisee, was ignorant of the law), nor affected with it; it came not from the heart, and therefore came not with authority.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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God is a non-such; we do not rightly praise him if we do not own him to be so.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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We cannot express how great and good God is, and therefore must praise him by acknowledging him to be a non-such.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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That he is a non-such among the inferior creatures: Upon earth there is not his like, v. 33.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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If Israel honour God as a non-such God, he will favour them so as to make them a non-such people, the envy of all their neighbours and the joy of all their well-wishers.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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