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... seed , or can bring forth such herbs as the sower looks for in their season " . And as the heart is likened to the hard ground , so the Divine doctrine is compared to the softening rain or dew which the thirsty soil drinks in so eagerly ...
... seed , or can bring forth such herbs as the sower looks for in their season " . And as the heart is likened to the hard ground , so the Divine doctrine is compared to the softening rain or dew which the thirsty soil drinks in so eagerly ...
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... seeds which shall bear fruit in due season . And thus has many and many a heart , which seemed " as hard as a piece of the nether mill- stone , " been softened and penetrated by the heavenly doctrine in due time . The man who seemed ...
... seeds which shall bear fruit in due season . And thus has many and many a heart , which seemed " as hard as a piece of the nether mill- stone , " been softened and penetrated by the heavenly doctrine in due time . The man who seemed ...
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... seed ( or bread ) which is cast by the sower on the waters , is not lost ; but bears its fruit in due season . It seems indeed to be lost . It seems an act of waste and folly , for such as can ill afford to suffer any loss , to cast ...
... seed ( or bread ) which is cast by the sower on the waters , is not lost ; but bears its fruit in due season . It seems indeed to be lost . It seems an act of waste and folly , for such as can ill afford to suffer any loss , to cast ...
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... seed cast upon the waters which is found after many days . The relief which you gave in secret to a stranger , whom you never thought of seeing again , shall be blessed not only to him , but still more surely to yourself . You shall ...
... seed cast upon the waters which is found after many days . The relief which you gave in secret to a stranger , whom you never thought of seeing again , shall be blessed not only to him , but still more surely to yourself . You shall ...
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... seed be . " Gen. xv . 5. - See also Ps . cxlviii . 3 . Dan . xii . 3. Heb . xi . 12 . As the Sun is the Scriptural emblem of Christ the Sun of Righteousness , so all the other heavenly bodies , and the heavens also themselves , are ...
... seed be . " Gen. xv . 5. - See also Ps . cxlviii . 3 . Dan . xii . 3. Heb . xi . 12 . As the Sun is the Scriptural emblem of Christ the Sun of Righteousness , so all the other heavenly bodies , and the heavens also themselves , are ...
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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.