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afraid of evil Ahab believe Bible blessing brethren burning Christ Christian church comfort coming danger death Divine doctrine duty earth earthly Ephraimite eternal evil tidings faith father fear fire forget gain the world give God's Hanani hand hear hearers heart is fixed Heaven Holy Spirit human Jehoshaphat Jehu Jesus listen live look Lord loveth Lord's lose lost man's means mind nature neglect ness never original sin Paul the apostle perish pharisee poor pray prayer profit PSALM pulpit punishment quench question Ramoth reason religion repent rience righteous Sabbath saints salvation Satan Saviour Search the Scriptures seek servant Shibboleth shipwreck sickness sinner sins solemn sorrow soul speak strive suffered surely tell things found thou thought thousand guineas tion true truth utterance voice wholly wicked wilderness word worldly worship wreck
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Page 169 - And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, " Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, " Art thou an Ephraimite? " If he said, " Nay," then said they unto him, " Say now Shibboleth "; and he said, "Sibboleth"; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan.
Page 132 - ... by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God ; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee : and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire ; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Page 191 - Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power...
Page 171 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 41 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 123 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true: my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
Page 74 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 229 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Page 237 - Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Page 225 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months ; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it ; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.