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... thee with a good wish , which I am sure shall be accomplished for thee , and for all thofe , that boneftly labour in God's word and work ; I mean , I bid thee God f King SOLOMON's Portraiture of OLD AGE . Ecclef . xii To the READER .
... thee with a good wish , which I am sure shall be accomplished for thee , and for all thofe , that boneftly labour in God's word and work ; I mean , I bid thee God f King SOLOMON's Portraiture of OLD AGE . Ecclef . xii To the READER .
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... shall tremble , and the strong men shall bow themselves , and the grinders ceafe because they are few , and those that look out of the windows be darkened . And the doors fhall be fout in the fireets , when the found of the grinding ...
... shall tremble , and the strong men shall bow themselves , and the grinders ceafe because they are few , and those that look out of the windows be darkened . And the doors fhall be fout in the fireets , when the found of the grinding ...
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... shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the true knowledge of moft things that appertain to this . Seek firft the Kingdom of God , and all other things fhall be added unto ...
... shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the true knowledge of moft things that appertain to this . Seek firft the Kingdom of God , and all other things fhall be added unto ...
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... shall add any thing to others knowledge , I fhall therein have a fecond reward . - I am not ignorant of all , nor do I despise any of those several interpretations both literal and mystical , that several learned and good men have been ...
... shall add any thing to others knowledge , I fhall therein have a fecond reward . - I am not ignorant of all , nor do I despise any of those several interpretations both literal and mystical , that several learned and good men have been ...
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... shall not take upon me precisely to limit the bounds of this decrepit ftate , forafmuch as they are various , in refpect of the difpofitions of mens bodies , of their courfe of lives , and alfo of the places and ages in which they live ...
... shall not take upon me precisely to limit the bounds of this decrepit ftate , forafmuch as they are various , in refpect of the difpofitions of mens bodies , of their courfe of lives , and alfo of the places and ages in which they live ...
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Page 87 - And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 122 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Page 168 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 143 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 13 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 152 - Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Page 203 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 44 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Page 231 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Page 79 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...