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... hand , and meted out heaven with the span , and compre- hended the dust of the earth in a measure , and weighed the mountains in scales , and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord ? or being His counsellor ...
... hand , and meted out heaven with the span , and compre- hended the dust of the earth in a measure , and weighed the mountains in scales , and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord ? or being His counsellor ...
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... hand , the natural limit between night and day . On this astronomical distinction was founded the Jewish Law : " From evening unto evening ye shall hallow your sabbath . " Levit . xxiii . 32. That is , " from evening twilight , until ...
... hand , the natural limit between night and day . On this astronomical distinction was founded the Jewish Law : " From evening unto evening ye shall hallow your sabbath . " Levit . xxiii . 32. That is , " from evening twilight , until ...
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... hands are our destinies to - day and for ever . We may derive much profit from an often recurring to these grand operations ; how “ of old He laid the foundations of the earth ; and the heavens are the work of His hands ; " we shall be ...
... hands are our destinies to - day and for ever . We may derive much profit from an often recurring to these grand operations ; how “ of old He laid the foundations of the earth ; and the heavens are the work of His hands ; " we shall be ...
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... hand to work by imitation : although we rather embrace the oracle of Hippocrates , That each thing , both in small and great , fulfilleth the task which destiny hath set down . And concerning the man- ner of executing and fulfilling the ...
... hand to work by imitation : although we rather embrace the oracle of Hippocrates , That each thing , both in small and great , fulfilleth the task which destiny hath set down . And concerning the man- ner of executing and fulfilling the ...
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... hand , ready to prevent any perversion of their design , or interruption of their action , he deems it to be totally inconsistent with his own character , and their free and intended ope- ration , to be ever employed in personal ...
... hand , ready to prevent any perversion of their design , or interruption of their action , he deems it to be totally inconsistent with his own character , and their free and intended ope- ration , to be ever employed in personal ...
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Page 176 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 211 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 140 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 279 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 34 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth 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 274 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 222 - What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 204 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page xiii - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 241 - Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold : the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.