Lessons on the Truth of Christianity: Being an Appendix to the Fourth Book of Lessons for the Use of Schools |
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Page 47 - Lord, save us, we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him...
Page 94 - If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Page 76 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also : knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed ; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Page 29 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...
Page 30 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 2 - And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Page 93 - And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Page 94 - And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Page 107 - Christian faith ; and if you do not, on the contrary, endeavour to the utmost, " to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, in all things.
Page 68 - Christ told them, that they knew not what manner of spirit they were of; Luke ix.