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... object of at least equal importance is the erection of a suitable and respectable permanent place of worship ... objects they are striving for , and which we have set forth , they will , please God , and under his providence and blessing ...
... object of at least equal importance is the erection of a suitable and respectable permanent place of worship ... objects they are striving for , and which we have set forth , they will , please God , and under his providence and blessing ...
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... objects of pursuit , as well as in the motives from which he pursues them . The great Roman orator and moralist declares that , " While no animal save man has any knowledge of God , yet there is no nation so savage as not to know that ...
... objects of pursuit , as well as in the motives from which he pursues them . The great Roman orator and moralist declares that , " While no animal save man has any knowledge of God , yet there is no nation so savage as not to know that ...
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... objects in nature , and gradually rising to the idea of one all - powerful God , it appears that mankind at first held a monotheistic creed , and that subsequent progress was in " the opposite direction . " Probably the first falling ...
... objects in nature , and gradually rising to the idea of one all - powerful God , it appears that mankind at first held a monotheistic creed , and that subsequent progress was in " the opposite direction . " Probably the first falling ...
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... object of their saintly worship ; and under the appellation of Baal or Bel - for Bel was a Babylonian as well as a Syrian idol - that name and worship spread abroad till it reached this land . We have a memorial of this Baal worship ...
... object of their saintly worship ; and under the appellation of Baal or Bel - for Bel was a Babylonian as well as a Syrian idol - that name and worship spread abroad till it reached this land . We have a memorial of this Baal worship ...
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... object to which that worship would be paid , supposed that the Jews were atheists , and said , " Nullum numen adorant , " they worship no divinity . He supposed that if they worshipped any being at all , the blue cloud must be the object ...
... object to which that worship would be paid , supposed that the Jews were atheists , and said , " Nullum numen adorant , " they worship no divinity . He supposed that if they worshipped any being at all , the blue cloud must be the object ...
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Page 13 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 4 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 256 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 17 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 362 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off...
Page 14 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 125 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 331 - Amazing grace! (How sweet the sound!) That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.
Page 34 - WESLEY'S COL. For Christian Principles. 1 MY God, my strength, my hope, On thee I cast my care, With humble confidence look up, And know thou hear'st my prayer.
Page 198 - Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.