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Page 18
... bright green of the tender plant is seen above the watery waste ; and the sower finds his bread with abundant increase . Thus it is , that in the eyes of an unbelieving world it seems " " waste 6 99 and loss to expend in the relief of ...
... bright green of the tender plant is seen above the watery waste ; and the sower finds his bread with abundant increase . Thus it is , that in the eyes of an unbelieving world it seems " " waste 6 99 and loss to expend in the relief of ...
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... bright inheritance which he is forfeiting , for want of taking the necessary pains to gain it . Such is the state of every soul by nature ; and it is of God's great mercy that we are roused from this stupid sleep , and spiritual ...
... bright inheritance which he is forfeiting , for want of taking the necessary pains to gain it . Such is the state of every soul by nature ; and it is of God's great mercy that we are roused from this stupid sleep , and spiritual ...
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... bright morrow , when they shall awake up in the likeness of God , and be for ever satisfied with it ! When I lie down to take rest in sleep , let me think both of that sleep of the soul which is sin , that I may pray to be awakened from ...
... bright morrow , when they shall awake up in the likeness of God , and be for ever satisfied with it ! When I lie down to take rest in sleep , let me think both of that sleep of the soul which is sin , that I may pray to be awakened from ...
Page 40
... bright inheritance , to have lived a life of sen- sual indulgence in forgetfulness of God and of the poor . May no chastisement be unwelcome , which may serve to rouse me from so fatal a state ! Let me count as a blessing any discipline ...
... bright inheritance , to have lived a life of sen- sual indulgence in forgetfulness of God and of the poor . May no chastisement be unwelcome , which may serve to rouse me from so fatal a state ! Let me count as a blessing any discipline ...
Page 73
... bright before the sun . " " before the sun . " While the bed in which it grows filled with the seasonable rains , it flaunts itself as if in scorn of the more valuable blade in the neigh- bouring furrow , and gains more notice from the ...
... bright before the sun . " " before the sun . " While the bed in which it grows filled with the seasonable rains , it flaunts itself as if in scorn of the more valuable blade in the neigh- bouring furrow , and gains more notice from the ...
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Page 74 - ... and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 56 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 44 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 60 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 36 - Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Page 65 - These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 25 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 74 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.
Page 63 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And He saith unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Page 34 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; "knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.