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... danger ; since the body of the parent must then be pierced before the young eagles can be destroyed , or wounded . Surely every parent may well be reminded , by this description , of the duty of training and instructing his children ...
... danger ; since the body of the parent must then be pierced before the young eagles can be destroyed , or wounded . Surely every parent may well be reminded , by this description , of the duty of training and instructing his children ...
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... danger . He is warned of the peril that might over- take him at any moment ; but he mocks at the warn- ings which he receives . He is visited with Divine judgments which are intended to awaken him to a sense of his true condition : but ...
... danger . He is warned of the peril that might over- take him at any moment ; but he mocks at the warn- ings which he receives . He is visited with Divine judgments which are intended to awaken him to a sense of his true condition : but ...
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... danger , or his loss , until it is too late to escape the one , or to prevent the other . Thus is it with the man who lives only for the things of time , and sense . The judgments of God are far above out of his sight ; and all the ...
... danger , or his loss , until it is too late to escape the one , or to prevent the other . Thus is it with the man who lives only for the things of time , and sense . The judgments of God are far above out of his sight ; and all the ...
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... dangers to which he is exposed , a dwelling - place which may be struck or taken down in a moment . Thus St. Paul calls the body " the earthly house of this tabernacle , " which may soon be " dissolved ; " and St. Peter says , " I think ...
... dangers to which he is exposed , a dwelling - place which may be struck or taken down in a moment . Thus St. Paul calls the body " the earthly house of this tabernacle , " which may soon be " dissolved ; " and St. Peter says , " I think ...
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... dangers in which it is impossible to stand upright ; or , if they abstain from such miserable self- will , yet seek not the only strength and power which could keep them from falling ! Such persons are ever going blindly forward on ...
... dangers in which it is impossible to stand upright ; or , if they abstain from such miserable self- will , yet seek not the only strength and power which could keep them from falling ! Such persons are ever going blindly forward on ...
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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.