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... Creator and Redeemer ; combined with the humble hope of Divine approbation , will prompt the en- quiry , Lord ! what wilt thou have me to do ? The situation in which He who fixeth the bounds of our habitation , has been plea- sed.
... Creator and Redeemer ; combined with the humble hope of Divine approbation , will prompt the en- quiry , Lord ! what wilt thou have me to do ? The situation in which He who fixeth the bounds of our habitation , has been plea- sed.
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... Divine ap- pointment , which preserve and increase religious light and life in our churches , is family worship ; than which , perhaps , few have been more signally honored by Him , who to the dwellings of the just descends delighted ...
... Divine ap- pointment , which preserve and increase religious light and life in our churches , is family worship ; than which , perhaps , few have been more signally honored by Him , who to the dwellings of the just descends delighted ...
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... Divine compassion in thus dealing with ignorant man , the Apostle refers . † " In the law it is written , With men of other tongues " and other lips will I speak unto this people ; " and yet for all that , will they not hear me , saith ...
... Divine compassion in thus dealing with ignorant man , the Apostle refers . † " In the law it is written , With men of other tongues " and other lips will I speak unto this people ; " and yet for all that , will they not hear me , saith ...
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... with terror ; but " men of like passions with our- " selves " were entrusted with this deposit . When every effort of Divine compassion was unavailing or rejected , the high resolve was taken to part 6 INSTRUCTION BY PARABLES .
... with terror ; but " men of like passions with our- " selves " were entrusted with this deposit . When every effort of Divine compassion was unavailing or rejected , the high resolve was taken to part 6 INSTRUCTION BY PARABLES .
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... divine favor is seen in this arrange- ment ; much did our Lord insist on this pledge of the divine willingness to save the standing con- firmation of that most solemn , oath , " As I live , " saith the Lord , I have no delight in the ...
... divine favor is seen in this arrange- ment ; much did our Lord insist on this pledge of the divine willingness to save the standing con- firmation of that most solemn , oath , " As I live , " saith the Lord , I have no delight in the ...
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Page 100 - And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink ? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him 1 I trow not.
Page 45 - Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Page 149 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 133 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 301 - And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an Altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the Altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 375 - My lord delayeth his coming, and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Page 201 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 393 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 386 - Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
Page 187 - To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.