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... 'd their rising State , What Angels on their fide embattel'd food : While how'ring Death did for its Quarry wait , And ancient Kihon drew a purple Flood . But who the fore - moft ftands in Glory's Race But DEDICATION .
... 'd their rising State , What Angels on their fide embattel'd food : While how'ring Death did for its Quarry wait , And ancient Kihon drew a purple Flood . But who the fore - moft ftands in Glory's Race But DEDICATION .
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... Poles ; and all Convulfive Nature trembled at their Fall . Hence all those Ills which God's fair Work deface , Hence Sin , and Death , and Pain entail'd on all their Race . II . Gene- I. GENESIS , Chap . III , to Ver . 6 The Hiftorp of.
... Poles ; and all Convulfive Nature trembled at their Fall . Hence all those Ills which God's fair Work deface , Hence Sin , and Death , and Pain entail'd on all their Race . II . Gene- I. GENESIS , Chap . III , to Ver . 6 The Hiftorp of.
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... Death and Sin ! Their Crime and Curfe our Parents foon are shown , And in their Offsprings Fate they read their own : Two Sons they had , and both , as taught , prepare Tattone high Heav'n with Sacrifice and Prayr . Their Elder harth ...
... Death and Sin ! Their Crime and Curfe our Parents foon are shown , And in their Offsprings Fate they read their own : Two Sons they had , and both , as taught , prepare Tattone high Heav'n with Sacrifice and Prayr . Their Elder harth ...
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... Death did mean : Where is thy Brother , GOD in Thunder cries ; I neither know nor care , the Churl replies . Am I bis Keeper , that thou me doft charge ? My Fields are narrow , but his Walks are large : O Wretch , he cries , thy Crimes ...
... Death did mean : Where is thy Brother , GOD in Thunder cries ; I neither know nor care , the Churl replies . Am I bis Keeper , that thou me doft charge ? My Fields are narrow , but his Walks are large : O Wretch , he cries , thy Crimes ...
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... Death . --- Which now from injur'd angry Heav'n defcends , While the vex'd Earth with dire Convulfions rends : And Old Abyss , which round the Center lay Reveals her hidden Stores to wondring Day : Rivers their Banks , the Sea forgets ...
... Death . --- Which now from injur'd angry Heav'n defcends , While the vex'd Earth with dire Convulfions rends : And Old Abyss , which round the Center lay Reveals her hidden Stores to wondring Day : Rivers their Banks , the Sea forgets ...
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Page 47 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 209 - Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Page 115 - And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Page 181 - And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor : and if the dew • be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Page 11 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 243 - And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to.
Page 73 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 37 - And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Page 273 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 267 - Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?