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... earnest conviction , saying , " God be merciful to me a sinner ! " He has learnt to reflect with amazement on those sufferings of our blessed Saviour , which were " nothing " to him before ; his con- science has again become tender ...
... earnest conviction , saying , " God be merciful to me a sinner ! " He has learnt to reflect with amazement on those sufferings of our blessed Saviour , which were " nothing " to him before ; his con- science has again become tender ...
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... earnest and reverent piety is anxious to dis- tinguish the house of God from common buildings , by whatever may render it less unworthy of its sacred purpose , we too often hear a censure cast on what is termed an useless expenditure ...
... earnest and reverent piety is anxious to dis- tinguish the house of God from common buildings , by whatever may render it less unworthy of its sacred purpose , we too often hear a censure cast on what is termed an useless expenditure ...
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... earnest desire to the true home , to which I am continually drawing nigh . Knowing how soon the tent may be struck , let me prepare myself for the journey which must then be taken ; and whenever that time shall come , believe with 3 Ps ...
... earnest desire to the true home , to which I am continually drawing nigh . Knowing how soon the tent may be struck , let me prepare myself for the journey which must then be taken ; and whenever that time shall come , believe with 3 Ps ...
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... earnest purpose to " glorify the Lord in the fires , " by patience , and calm trust ; and we should even desire that whatever is necessary for our true purification , may not be withheld . We cannot expect that the work of ...
... earnest purpose to " glorify the Lord in the fires , " by patience , and calm trust ; and we should even desire that whatever is necessary for our true purification , may not be withheld . We cannot expect that the work of ...
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... earnest desire that the poison might be removed , ) or if we go to Him as the woman with an issue of blood , who came behind in the crowd , and touched the hem of His garment ; we shall find that such " virtue " will pass out of Him ...
... earnest desire that the poison might be removed , ) or if we go to Him as the woman with an issue of blood , who came behind in the crowd , and touched the hem of His garment ; we shall find that such " virtue " will pass out of Him ...
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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.