The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence,Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828 |
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... prophet , to expect or solicit any criminal compliances . His well meant offers had been , upon the most solid grounds of piety , refused by the prophet ; and they were not repeated , you see , by the king from any mistaken motive of ...
... prophet , to expect or solicit any criminal compliances . His well meant offers had been , upon the most solid grounds of piety , refused by the prophet ; and they were not repeated , you see , by the king from any mistaken motive of ...
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... prophet - come home with me and eat bread . But the man of God still remembered the peremptory injunction of the deity , —still persisted in his honest purpose of obeying it . In the same spirit with which he before had forborne to ...
... prophet - come home with me and eat bread . But the man of God still remembered the peremptory injunction of the deity , —still persisted in his honest purpose of obeying it . In the same spirit with which he before had forborne to ...
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... prophet who dwelt at Bethel , was a sufficient foundation for the conviction , and a sufficient rule for the behaviour of both . To this plain position your own common sense will induce you to accede ; and yet , without meaning to ...
... prophet who dwelt at Bethel , was a sufficient foundation for the conviction , and a sufficient rule for the behaviour of both . To this plain position your own common sense will induce you to accede ; and yet , without meaning to ...
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... prophet gone back , upon any subsequent invitation , would not Jeroboam have been displeased at finding those offers accepted from a subject , which had been refused when proceeding from himself ? Had the prophetic cha- racter of the ...
... prophet gone back , upon any subsequent invitation , would not Jeroboam have been displeased at finding those offers accepted from a subject , which had been refused when proceeding from himself ? Had the prophetic cha- racter of the ...
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... prophet ? Be this as it may , the injunction itself was ex- plicit , and there is some probability at least that it ... prophets of the heathens had justly and notoriously incurred . Thus Balaam , wavering between the cravings of his ...
... prophet ? Be this as it may , the injunction itself was ex- plicit , and there is some probability at least that it ... prophets of the heathens had justly and notoriously incurred . Thus Balaam , wavering between the cravings of his ...
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Page 216 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Page 194 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, " Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ;" thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 640 - So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good : and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Page 559 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 660 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Page 141 - God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless : and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
Page 565 - For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Page 572 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 147 - How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed ? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied ? for from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel ? let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his...
Page 283 - I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.