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... Scripture , local circumstances , or professional calling . Impressions of the brevity of life ; a solemn recollection of personal responsibi- lity ; a due apprehension of the vast weight of obligation to God , as the Creator and ...
... Scripture , local circumstances , or professional calling . Impressions of the brevity of life ; a solemn recollection of personal responsibi- lity ; a due apprehension of the vast weight of obligation to God , as the Creator and ...
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... scripture , and confirmed by experience , he has only to say— “ What I " have written , I have written . " Not so confidently can the writer speak of the mo- tives which have urged the publication , or the feelings with which he ...
... scripture , and confirmed by experience , he has only to say— “ What I " have written , I have written . " Not so confidently can the writer speak of the mo- tives which have urged the publication , or the feelings with which he ...
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... Scriptures , as the sub- ject of their senseless and impious ridicule ; and in the fulness of their folly , exclaim - how severe the penalty for taking an apple ! But look at the fact as it really occurred . Consider the offence as the ...
... Scriptures , as the sub- ject of their senseless and impious ridicule ; and in the fulness of their folly , exclaim - how severe the penalty for taking an apple ! But look at the fact as it really occurred . Consider the offence as the ...
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... scriptures , search them daily , and you will find this statement lamentably true . 8. However hard you have to work now , recol lect you will not have to work long : a season of refreshment and repose will be the happy lot of every ...
... scriptures , search them daily , and you will find this statement lamentably true . 8. However hard you have to work now , recol lect you will not have to work long : a season of refreshment and repose will be the happy lot of every ...
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... scriptural injunctions are frequent . Like all commands to man in his fallen state , they refer however , rather to his duty than to his ability ; they shew what he ought to do , rather than what he can do . Never lose sight of this ...
... scriptural injunctions are frequent . Like all commands to man in his fallen state , they refer however , rather to his duty than to his ability ; they shew what he ought to do , rather than what he can do . Never lose sight of this ...
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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.