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... waters of Marah , unwholesome as the streams of Jericho , noxious as the pottage prepared for the sons of the prophets . Asp . Nor is this a misrepresentation : for such they really are , till divine grace , like Moses's wood , like ...
... waters of Marah , unwholesome as the streams of Jericho , noxious as the pottage prepared for the sons of the prophets . Asp . Nor is this a misrepresentation : for such they really are , till divine grace , like Moses's wood , like ...
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... water and the act of swimming ? That bed in the garden before us will suggest the reason . It has been digged and dressed this very day ; it now lies smooth and clean ; not a single weed appears on its surface ; yet how certainly will ...
... water and the act of swimming ? That bed in the garden before us will suggest the reason . It has been digged and dressed this very day ; it now lies smooth and clean ; not a single weed appears on its surface ; yet how certainly will ...
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... is always raised with a double slope , to turn away the current of the waters , and shoot the rain from their store - houses . See Nat . Displ . vol . i . They all bestir themselves with incessant assiduity , while the DIALOGUE XIII . 19.
... is always raised with a double slope , to turn away the current of the waters , and shoot the rain from their store - houses . See Nat . Displ . vol . i . They all bestir themselves with incessant assiduity , while the DIALOGUE XIII . 19.
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... waters in that elegant octangular basin ; they assimilate themselves with the utmost readiness , and with equal exactness to the ves- sel that contains them . So would the human will , if it were not extremely froward and foolish ...
... waters in that elegant octangular basin ; they assimilate themselves with the utmost readiness , and with equal exactness to the ves- sel that contains them . So would the human will , if it were not extremely froward and foolish ...
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... water the earth . On another occasion he presents his supplications , and God makes his feet like harts ' feet ; insomuch that an aged prophet outruns the royal chariot . Asp . I commend you taste , Theron , and am parti- cularly ...
... water the earth . On another occasion he presents his supplications , and God makes his feet like harts ' feet ; insomuch that an aged prophet outruns the royal chariot . Asp . I commend you taste , Theron , and am parti- cularly ...
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Page 7 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 264 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 234 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 293 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the Lord.
Page 349 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Page 102 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Page 268 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 431 - For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up : yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.
Page 104 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Page 107 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.