Priceless pearls for all Christians, comprising the nativity, baptism, teachings, miracles, transfiguration, crucifixion and resurrection of our glorious Redeemer [Jesus Christ].1850 |
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... gave the order for the execution of the Baptist ; imagine the conster- nation of the guests when the dreadful boon that the simple damsel was required to ask by her malicious and remorseless mother , was preferred : how must every heart ...
... gave the order for the execution of the Baptist ; imagine the conster- nation of the guests when the dreadful boon that the simple damsel was required to ask by her malicious and remorseless mother , was preferred : how must every heart ...
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... gave it , confident in the saving power of Christ , and dying in the full belief and hope of a joyful resurrection . Faith is triumphant even in death ; and we may well suppose that St. John had no fear for the result . Oh , no ! -for ...
... gave it , confident in the saving power of Christ , and dying in the full belief and hope of a joyful resurrection . Faith is triumphant even in death ; and we may well suppose that St. John had no fear for the result . Oh , no ! -for ...
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... gave his " cheek to be smitten , " and sat alone and " full of reproach , " he had yet the consolation , even in the cruel hands of his enemies , of knowing that it is good " that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the ...
... gave his " cheek to be smitten , " and sat alone and " full of reproach , " he had yet the consolation , even in the cruel hands of his enemies , of knowing that it is good " that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the ...
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... gave such manifest proofs of his wisdom and penetration , as astonished all beholders , many of whom thought he must be something more than human . As , according to his own declaration , he was employed in his Father's business , it is ...
... gave such manifest proofs of his wisdom and penetration , as astonished all beholders , many of whom thought he must be something more than human . As , according to his own declaration , he was employed in his Father's business , it is ...
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... Gave speechless thanks to God . These beautiful lines give us a faint idea of the rapturous sense of freedom that the blind man might have felt on his restoration to sight . No longer might he exclaim- O where are the visions of ecstasy ...
... Gave speechless thanks to God . These beautiful lines give us a faint idea of the rapturous sense of freedom that the blind man might have felt on his restoration to sight . No longer might he exclaim- O where are the visions of ecstasy ...
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Page 45 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Page 45 - It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
Page 48 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 81 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Page 77 - And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment ; and yet thou never gavest me a kid that I might make merry with my friends ; but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Page 20 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 62 - And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again, at the last day.
Page 97 - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven ; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet ; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Page 44 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 47 - Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.