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... should I fearch any further ? Ænigmatical I confess it , and exceeding difficult ; where- fore I have the more diligently applied myself to the interpretation of it . And so much the 4 to King SOLOMON's Portraiture not the only, that ...
... should I fearch any further ? Ænigmatical I confess it , and exceeding difficult ; where- fore I have the more diligently applied myself to the interpretation of it . And so much the 4 to King SOLOMON's Portraiture not the only, that ...
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... should be fo many years before the flood swept them all away : But it seems to me ( and not to me only * ) rather to intend the cutting short of the life of man for the future . For it is clear by the context , that B 3 Jofephus , lib ...
... should be fo many years before the flood swept them all away : But it seems to me ( and not to me only * ) rather to intend the cutting short of the life of man for the future . For it is clear by the context , that B 3 Jofephus , lib ...
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John Smith. to be thought , that in thefe days man's age should be fo long , nor fo many arrive at it , as in the days wherein the bow of universal na- ture abode in its greater ftrength . Nor can we exactly put the terms of any man's ...
John Smith. to be thought , that in thefe days man's age should be fo long , nor fo many arrive at it , as in the days wherein the bow of universal na- ture abode in its greater ftrength . Nor can we exactly put the terms of any man's ...
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... should please the Lord to protract the life of man to the extreamest point it is capable of ; if he fhould * Tithonus . should withhold his hand from pushing down the house which of OLD AGE . 17.
... should please the Lord to protract the life of man to the extreamest point it is capable of ; if he fhould * Tithonus . should withhold his hand from pushing down the house which of OLD AGE . 17.
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John Smith. should withhold his hand from pushing down the house which he hath made , and let it fall to decay upon its own principles , his forbear- ance would be the greater , its fall would be the leffer ; however in the mean time ...
John Smith. should withhold his hand from pushing down the house which he hath made , and let it fall to decay upon its own principles , his forbear- ance would be the greater , its fall would be the leffer ; however in the mean time ...
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Page 13 - 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.
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Page 1 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves...
Page 54 - 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 229 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 229 - 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 145 - 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 201 - 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 166 - I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.