Real Dialogues on the Evidences of Christianity: From "Death Bed Scenes"

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Leavitt, Lord, & Company, 1835 - Church work with the sick - 270 pages
 

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Page 150 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 27 - And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
Page 150 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 21 - So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 179 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 167 - And he is the head of the body, the church : who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead ; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell...
Page 74 - Take, eat, this is My Body which is given for you : Do this in remembrance of Me. Likewise after supper He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 261 - For it is evident from the cited authorities, that they, equally with others, constantly maintain that there will be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust — and that the latter shall be consigned to everlasting punishment, but the former admitted to
Page 112 - I.sdere tela solent" 31 The two classical instances were probably present to Dante's mind, (i) The Delphic oracle to Croesus, that if he crossed the Halys he would destroy a great kingdom (Herod, i. 53), which he may have read in Cic. De Div. ii. 56, and the " Aio te, SEacide, Romanes vincere posse," which was said to have been given to Pyrrhus.
Page 148 - He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," sounded in the depths of his soul.

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