Apples of gold for young men and women ... or, The happiness of being good betimes1859 |
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... Faces toward Zion . DEAR HEARTS , —A word spoken in due season , how good it is ! It is often like apples of gold in pic → tures of silver . Many times such a word is sweet , precious , pleasing , and delectable , and strong in its ...
... Faces toward Zion . DEAR HEARTS , —A word spoken in due season , how good it is ! It is often like apples of gold in pic → tures of silver . Many times such a word is sweet , precious , pleasing , and delectable , and strong in its ...
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... carriage , and smoothest conversations . Error is so foul an hag , that if it should come in its own shape , a man would loathe it , and flee from it , as from hell , If Jezebel had not painted her face , she had xvi DEDICATION ,
... carriage , and smoothest conversations . Error is so foul an hag , that if it should come in its own shape , a man would loathe it , and flee from it , as from hell , If Jezebel had not painted her face , she had xvi DEDICATION ,
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Thomas Brooks. If Jezebel had not painted her face , she had not gotten so many young adulterers to have followed her to their own ruin . Ah ! young men , the blessing of the Lord upon your serious and diligent perusal of this treatise ...
Thomas Brooks. If Jezebel had not painted her face , she had not gotten so many young adulterers to have followed her to their own ruin . Ah ! young men , the blessing of the Lord upon your serious and diligent perusal of this treatise ...
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... face never shone so angelically , so gloriously in the church , where all were virtuous , as before the council , where all were vicious and malicious . So Abijah was a bright star , a shining sun , in Jeroboamn's court , which , for ...
... face never shone so angelically , so gloriously in the church , where all were virtuous , as before the council , where all were vicious and malicious . So Abijah was a bright star , a shining sun , in Jeroboamn's court , which , for ...
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... face , yet he may be as near the young man's back . " Man's life is the shadow of smoke , the dream of a shadow ; one doubteth whether to call it a dying life , or a living death . Ah , young men ! God commands you to be good betimes ...
... face , yet he may be as near the young man's back . " Man's life is the shadow of smoke , the dream of a shadow ; one doubteth whether to call it a dying life , or a living death . Ah , young men ! God commands you to be good betimes ...
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Abijah answer Art thou Augustus Cæsar begin betimes better Blessed blood Cæsar called carnal reason conscience creatures crown cursed dead death delights Divine doth earnest earth enemy eternity evil eyes Father favour feast for crows fire flatterers friends fulness give glory Gospel grace gracious happy hath hear heart heathen heaven Hebrew hell holy honour iniquity Jeroboam Jesus Christ judgment Justin Martyr king Lactantius lean live look Lot in Sodom lusts mercy miserable never occasions of sin old age old Christian old disciple pardon Phocion pleasures poor sinners prayer precious primrose Prov Psal remember repent reproaches reward rich righteousness saints saith Satan Scripture season seek and serve serve the Lord sins souls speaks Spirit spring and morning sweet temptations thee things thou art thou hast thou shalt thy youth treasures unto wilt wise women word yourselves
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Page 204 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Page 178 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 70 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 205 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Page 86 - In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Page 137 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 85 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Page 29 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 16 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Page 68 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.