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... creation ; when we consider , that our existence , as thinking beings , may run parallel with interminable ages ; and that , in the revolutions of eternity , we may exist in regions of space immeasurably distant from our present ...
... creation ; when we consider , that our existence , as thinking beings , may run parallel with interminable ages ; and that , in the revolutions of eternity , we may exist in regions of space immeasurably distant from our present ...
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... creation , and when the spark of intelligence he possessed is quenched in everlasting night . If any man be fully convinced that the grave puts a final period to his existence , the only consistent action he can perform , when he finds ...
... creation , and when the spark of intelligence he possessed is quenched in everlasting night . If any man be fully convinced that the grave puts a final period to his existence , the only consistent action he can perform , when he finds ...
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... creation , than suffer the punish- ment due to his sins in the eternal world . It may also be remarked , that the desire of immortality , however vigorous it may be in ordinary minds , becomes still more glowing and ardent in proportion ...
... creation , than suffer the punish- ment due to his sins in the eternal world . It may also be remarked , that the desire of immortality , however vigorous it may be in ordinary minds , becomes still more glowing and ardent in proportion ...
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... creation when our earthly tabernacles are laid in the dust.- The desires , to which I now refer , appear to be an essential part of the human constitution , and , consequently , were im- planted in our nature by the hand of our Creator ...
... creation when our earthly tabernacles are laid in the dust.- The desires , to which I now refer , appear to be an essential part of the human constitution , and , consequently , were im- planted in our nature by the hand of our Creator ...
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... creation . I never knew an instance in which knowledge of this description was communicated in a rational , distinct , and alluring manner ,. where it was not received with a certain degree of pleasure , and with an ardent desire to ...
... creation . I never knew an instance in which knowledge of this description was communicated in a rational , distinct , and alluring manner ,. where it was not received with a certain degree of pleasure , and with an ardent desire to ...
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Page 111 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 135 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Page 113 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just : 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 228 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 23 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 84 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 26 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Page 228 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 114 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 111 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.