The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volume 2Thomas Tegg, 1825 - Devotional literature |
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... stand the posts which are to mark out the limits of the course . Without this previous restrictive care , how irregular would be the excursions of the contending steeds ! How diffi- cult , rather how impossible , to declare the ...
... stand the posts which are to mark out the limits of the course . Without this previous restrictive care , how irregular would be the excursions of the contending steeds ! How diffi- cult , rather how impossible , to declare the ...
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... stand the fairer chance for general accepta- tion . But there are several weighty scruples to be removed , before persons of a liberal and enlarged way of thinking can acquiesce in your opinion . Who , for instance , can persuade ...
... stand the fairer chance for general accepta- tion . But there are several weighty scruples to be removed , before persons of a liberal and enlarged way of thinking can acquiesce in your opinion . Who , for instance , can persuade ...
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... stand the test of reason . Asp . What is your notion of a ransom ? When Priam redeemed the dead body of Hector from the victorious Achilles , how was it done ? Ther . By paying a price . Thus Fabius recovered 58 THERON AND ASPASIO .
... stand the test of reason . Asp . What is your notion of a ransom ? When Priam redeemed the dead body of Hector from the victorious Achilles , how was it done ? Ther . By paying a price . Thus Fabius recovered 58 THERON AND ASPASIO .
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... standing , and the recovery of his fallen disciples . Give me leave to ask farther , what is your idea of a sacrifice ? When Iphigenia was slain at the altar , what was the import of that memorable action ? Ther . It was intended , if ...
... standing , and the recovery of his fallen disciples . Give me leave to ask farther , what is your idea of a sacrifice ? When Iphigenia was slain at the altar , what was the import of that memorable action ? Ther . It was intended , if ...
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... stand at bay . From a small eminence , but at a considerable dis- tance , gushed a couple of springs , which , rambling through a grove , lost one another in the shady laby- rinth . Emerging at length from the gloom , they approached ...
... stand at bay . From a small eminence , but at a considerable dis- tance , gushed a couple of springs , which , rambling through a grove , lost one another in the shady laby- rinth . Emerging at length from the gloom , they approached ...
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Page 179 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 209 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Page 168 - Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel : because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Page 220 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 79 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 217 - 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 329 - What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints ; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy Is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Page 116 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 26 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 327 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children .of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.