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... nature's depravity . We are most prone , alas ! to lose sight of God's mercies and chastisements ; as several verses of this chapter intimate . On the part of Israel , indeed , such a review must have called up much , very much , to be ...
... nature's depravity . We are most prone , alas ! to lose sight of God's mercies and chastisements ; as several verses of this chapter intimate . On the part of Israel , indeed , such a review must have called up much , very much , to be ...
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... nature , and offering us the bread that endureth to everlasting life , the merciful Lord abases the pride of human boasting , and makes us feel where all our help lies . Thrice happy , O child of dust and death , if His grand aim be ...
... nature , and offering us the bread that endureth to everlasting life , the merciful Lord abases the pride of human boasting , and makes us feel where all our help lies . Thrice happy , O child of dust and death , if His grand aim be ...
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... nature . For the houses of prayer in different cities , what are they but schools of learning ? " The originator of the opposite opinion was Spencer . In his work on the ritual law of the Hebrews , which appeared in England towards the ...
... nature . For the houses of prayer in different cities , what are they but schools of learning ? " The originator of the opposite opinion was Spencer . In his work on the ritual law of the Hebrews , which appeared in England towards the ...
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... natural to infer , that if the mixing of the friendly souls of Jesu's lovers , in the defective atmosphere of assemblies held in a world of enmity , be attended by results so favourable to men's real happiness , there will be truly ...
... natural to infer , that if the mixing of the friendly souls of Jesu's lovers , in the defective atmosphere of assemblies held in a world of enmity , be attended by results so favourable to men's real happiness , there will be truly ...
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... behind us Footprints on the sands of time : Footprints , that perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother , Seeing , shall take heart again , 16 NATURAL HISTORY . " Let us , then ,
... behind us Footprints on the sands of time : Footprints , that perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother , Seeing , shall take heart again , 16 NATURAL HISTORY . " Let us , then ,
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Page 55 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves ; No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suflereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm ; howbeit, they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly.
Page 364 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, ' The harvest truly is plenteous, but ' the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the ' Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
Page 53 - For God speaketh once, Yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed ; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he my withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Page 100 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 303 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 15 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 123 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 194 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 99 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 44 - 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.