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... greatest straits and difficulties . Valerius Maximus reports , that one telling a sol- dier going to war against the Persians , that they would hide the sun with their arrows , he answered , " We shall fight best in the shade ...
... greatest straits and difficulties . Valerius Maximus reports , that one telling a sol- dier going to war against the Persians , that they would hide the sun with their arrows , he answered , " We shall fight best in the shade ...
Page xxi
... greatest design is to fill hell with souls , which should awaken every one to be active , and to do all that may be done to prevent his design , and help forward the salvation of souls . St. Chrysostom compares good pastors to foun ...
... greatest design is to fill hell with souls , which should awaken every one to be active , and to do all that may be done to prevent his design , and help forward the salvation of souls . St. Chrysostom compares good pastors to foun ...
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... greatest comfort and joy when they come to be old : Psal . lxxi . 5 , 17 , 18 , compared : " Thou art my hope , O Lord God : Thou art my trust from my youth . O God , Thou hast taught me from my youth : and hitherto have I declared Thy ...
... greatest comfort and joy when they come to be old : Psal . lxxi . 5 , 17 , 18 , compared : " Thou art my hope , O Lord God : Thou art my trust from my youth . O God , Thou hast taught me from my youth : and hitherto have I declared Thy ...
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... greatest weight hangs upon the smallest wires , and eternity depends upon those few hours I am to breathe in the world . O what cause have I , therefore , to be good , to know God , to believe , to repent , to get my peace made , and my ...
... greatest weight hangs upon the smallest wires , and eternity depends upon those few hours I am to breathe in the world . O what cause have I , therefore , to be good , to know God , to believe , to repent , to get my peace made , and my ...
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... which is spread through heaven and earth is epito- mized in Him . No good , below Him that is the greatest good , can satisfy the soul . A good wife , a good child , a good name , a good estate 26 [ CHAP . Apples of Gold.
... which is spread through heaven and earth is epito- mized in Him . No good , below Him that is the greatest good , can satisfy the soul . A good wife , a good child , a good name , a good estate 26 [ CHAP . Apples of Gold.
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Page 202 - 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 176 - 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 68 - 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 203 - 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 84 - 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 135 - 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 83 - 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 27 - 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 66 - 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.