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... least some part of it , to a ftate of wickedness , to a state of po- verty , to a state of spiritual desertion , to a fa- mine of bread , or of the Word of God , to the several difperfions and captivities of the Jews , to the ...
... least some part of it , to a ftate of wickedness , to a state of po- verty , to a state of spiritual desertion , to a fa- mine of bread , or of the Word of God , to the several difperfions and captivities of the Jews , to the ...
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... least in that measure , ) whereby they are principally adapted for the grinding . The firft is , they are naked , they have no covering or skin upon them , no not fo much as that common membrane , called , the Peri- afeon , which doth ...
... least in that measure , ) whereby they are principally adapted for the grinding . The firft is , they are naked , they have no covering or skin upon them , no not fo much as that common membrane , called , the Peri- afeon , which doth ...
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... least from any other bodies whatsoever , and therefore are the fitter for fuch a work as this . A mill - ftone is of all other ftones fuppofed to be the hardest , and therefore Job when he had expreffed the hard- nefs of the heart of ...
... least from any other bodies whatsoever , and therefore are the fitter for fuch a work as this . A mill - ftone is of all other ftones fuppofed to be the hardest , and therefore Job when he had expreffed the hard- nefs of the heart of ...
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... least , and having no antagonists ( were they firm in the head which they are not ) are not able to work themselves , and fo the whole grinding ceaseth ; which is a very great and most cer- tain fymptom of this ftate of weakness , and E ...
... least , and having no antagonists ( were they firm in the head which they are not ) are not able to work themselves , and fo the whole grinding ceaseth ; which is a very great and most cer- tain fymptom of this ftate of weakness , and E ...
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... least measure doubt- ed or queftioned . Forafmuch as they are the only true , and proper organs of feeing ; however , it will be well worth our labour to confider , how the eyes may be called , the lookers out of the windows . One may ...
... least measure doubt- ed or queftioned . Forafmuch as they are the only true , and proper organs of feeing ; however , it will be well worth our labour to confider , how the eyes may be called , the lookers out of the windows . One may ...
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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...