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... day ? Came ye hither with a deep prevailing sense of your own un- worthiness ? Felt ye , as your foot but touched this holy ground , each corroding care , each selfish purpose , each unruly will , ON PUBLIC DEVOTION . 35.
... day ? Came ye hither with a deep prevailing sense of your own un- worthiness ? Felt ye , as your foot but touched this holy ground , each corroding care , each selfish purpose , each unruly will , ON PUBLIC DEVOTION . 35.
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... ground , from whence , conscious of the excellencies that adorn our own age , we may look down with something of pity , something more of pride , on the defects of past generations . No ; bad as the Jews may have been at that day , they ...
... ground , from whence , conscious of the excellencies that adorn our own age , we may look down with something of pity , something more of pride , on the defects of past generations . No ; bad as the Jews may have been at that day , they ...
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... ground ; and may he who willeth not that any should perish , but that all should be made alive , may he , in his boundless compassion , moisten it with the dew of his favour , and cause it to put forth strong and healthy shoots , and ...
... ground ; and may he who willeth not that any should perish , but that all should be made alive , may he , in his boundless compassion , moisten it with the dew of his favour , and cause it to put forth strong and healthy shoots , and ...
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... ground - work of their system ; laws appeared , wherein the several duties of society were spe- cifically enforced , relating to husbands , wives , fathers , children , masters , ser- vants ; to secure obedience to these laws , they ...
... ground - work of their system ; laws appeared , wherein the several duties of society were spe- cifically enforced , relating to husbands , wives , fathers , children , masters , ser- vants ; to secure obedience to these laws , they ...
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... ground for the dis- tinction , we are entitled to call a caprice of nature ; do you understand , that by a caprice of nature , you are as you are ? that , in a bodily sense , perhaps you enjoy a complete and uninterrupted exemption from ...
... ground for the dis- tinction , we are entitled to call a caprice of nature ; do you understand , that by a caprice of nature , you are as you are ? that , in a bodily sense , perhaps you enjoy a complete and uninterrupted exemption from ...
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Page 150 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 136 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 57 - And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
Page 79 - And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Page 148 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 170 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 25 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 41 - AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
Page 150 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 166 - O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal ; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.