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... clear those passages that relate to them , than all the learned notes of critics and commentators , who in aftertimes fill us with their conjec- tures ; for very often , as to the matter in hand , they are nothing else . The language ...
... clear those passages that relate to them , than all the learned notes of critics and commentators , who in aftertimes fill us with their conjec- tures ; for very often , as to the matter in hand , they are nothing else . The language ...
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... or sixteen chapters , and read of them one to - day , and another to - morrow , & c . it was ten to one I should never come to a full and clear comprehension of it . The way to understand the mind of him that writ 24.
... or sixteen chapters , and read of them one to - day , and another to - morrow , & c . it was ten to one I should never come to a full and clear comprehension of it . The way to understand the mind of him that writ 24.
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... clear- ness of conception , of pertinency in dis- course , could not draw it out into use with the greatest advantages of force and cohe- That he knew how to prosecute his purpose with strength of argument and close reasoning , without ...
... clear- ness of conception , of pertinency in dis- course , could not draw it out into use with the greatest advantages of force and cohe- That he knew how to prosecute his purpose with strength of argument and close reasoning , without ...
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... clear every hard place , and leave no doubt unresolved . I know ex- pressions now out of use , opinions of those times , not heard of in our days , allusions to customs lost to us , and various circum . stances and particularities of ...
... clear every hard place , and leave no doubt unresolved . I know ex- pressions now out of use , opinions of those times , not heard of in our days , allusions to customs lost to us , and various circum . stances and particularities of ...
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... clear , and in or- der , open to his view . When he gave his thoughts utterance upon any point , the matter flowed like a torrent : but , ' tis plain , ' twas a matter he was perfectly master of ; he fully possessed the entire ...
... clear , and in or- der , open to his view . When he gave his thoughts utterance upon any point , the matter flowed like a torrent : but , ' tis plain , ' twas a matter he was perfectly master of ; he fully possessed the entire ...
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Page 65 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Page 57 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 55 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Page 103 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 92 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Page 55 - Set thou a wicked man over him : and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned : and let his prayer become sin.
Page 85 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, ' he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Page 73 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 105 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 105 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this...