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... holy and heart - searching God as , to use a Bible phrase , “ filthy rags . " It is not easy to bring human pride , no , nor human reason , to admit that ; to believe that the love- liest , the purest , the most virtuous of womankind ...
... holy and heart - searching God as , to use a Bible phrase , “ filthy rags . " It is not easy to bring human pride , no , nor human reason , to admit that ; to believe that the love- liest , the purest , the most virtuous of womankind ...
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... holy crown ; as one who , however humble thy present lot , is training for the highest society . Culti- vate the temper , and acquire the manners , and learn the language of heaven ; nor let the wealth or poverty , the joys or sorrows ...
... holy crown ; as one who , however humble thy present lot , is training for the highest society . Culti- vate the temper , and acquire the manners , and learn the language of heaven ; nor let the wealth or poverty , the joys or sorrows ...
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... holy bosom of a Christian family , as you are , by nature , to be received into the kingdom of heaven . A sinner ... holy beauties , of enjoying its holy happiness , he would find nothing there to delight his senses . How he would wonder ...
... holy bosom of a Christian family , as you are , by nature , to be received into the kingdom of heaven . A sinner ... holy beauties , of enjoying its holy happiness , he would find nothing there to delight his senses . How he would wonder ...
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... holy joys , you would feel more desolate in heaven than we have done in the heart of a great city , without one friend , jostled by crowds , but crowds who spoke a language we did not understand , and were aliens alike in dress and ...
... holy joys , you would feel more desolate in heaven than we have done in the heart of a great city , without one friend , jostled by crowds , but crowds who spoke a language we did not understand , and were aliens alike in dress and ...
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... holy services , " When will they be over ? " Oh , the slow , weary march of the hours of never - ending Sabbath devotions ! Oh , the painful glare of a never - setting Sabbath sun ! Than go down to hell , than perish in the coming storm ...
... holy services , " When will they be over ? " Oh , the slow , weary march of the hours of never - ending Sabbath devotions ! Oh , the painful glare of a never - setting Sabbath sun ! Than go down to hell , than perish in the coming storm ...
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Page 155 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 213 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 313 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 67 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Page 224 - GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds ; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high...
Page 128 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 123 - I, even I, am He That comforteth you : who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; and forgettest the LORD thy Maker, That hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
Page 331 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page 108 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 187 - Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants ; and with corn and wine have I sustained him : and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.