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... course , as the horse rusheth into the battle . " Jer . viii . 6. - See also Prov . xxix . 1 . How the horse rusheth to the battle is described in the book of Job . " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with ...
... course , as the horse rusheth into the battle . " Jer . viii . 6. - See also Prov . xxix . 1 . How the horse rusheth to the battle is described in the book of Job . " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with ...
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... course which he ought to take . This anchor is the hope which is set before sinners in Jesus Christ . The Apostle speaks of himself as having fled for refuge to lay hold of " the hope set before us ; " and of possessing this hope as an ...
... course which he ought to take . This anchor is the hope which is set before sinners in Jesus Christ . The Apostle speaks of himself as having fled for refuge to lay hold of " the hope set before us ; " and of possessing this hope as an ...
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... courses , seem to suggest the count- less multitude , and the godly order and stedfastness , as well as the future glory , of the children of God . Thus , when God made known to Abraham that he was to be the father of a countless ...
... courses , seem to suggest the count- less multitude , and the godly order and stedfastness , as well as the future glory , of the children of God . Thus , when God made known to Abraham that he was to be the father of a countless ...
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... courses , let me pray that I may myself be " stedfast and unmoveable " in that course of appointed duty to which Thou hast called me ; and that Thy Church may ever be ordered by wise and faithful pastors , who shall see that all things ...
... courses , let me pray that I may myself be " stedfast and unmoveable " in that course of appointed duty to which Thou hast called me ; and that Thy Church may ever be ordered by wise and faithful pastors , who shall see that all things ...
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... to the giddy and slippery places of worldly greatness , where those who witness his course expect 5 2 Cor . ii . 7 . that he will stumble fatally , at some unguarded moment B 6 Holy Scripture . 35 The wild goat upon the mountains.
... to the giddy and slippery places of worldly greatness , where those who witness his course expect 5 2 Cor . ii . 7 . that he will stumble fatally , at some unguarded moment B 6 Holy Scripture . 35 The wild goat upon the mountains.
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Popular passages
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.