The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1Baker and Fletcher, 1823 - Education |
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... fear many of us , and the younger by far the least so , are not disposed to wait till we are asked . It may be said the heart is too full of love towards God and religion , to suppress its feelings - like an abundant and overflowing ...
... fear many of us , and the younger by far the least so , are not disposed to wait till we are asked . It may be said the heart is too full of love towards God and religion , to suppress its feelings - like an abundant and overflowing ...
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... fears ; and he demands of us no other boon for all we come to ask , but a deep sense of our de- pendence on him , and some small gratitude - for it is little indeed he gets from us at the best - for whatever he may please to grant . row ...
... fears ; and he demands of us no other boon for all we come to ask , but a deep sense of our de- pendence on him , and some small gratitude - for it is little indeed he gets from us at the best - for whatever he may please to grant . row ...
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... fear , too many of us assume- -it is not as such our God invites us to his presence . It is as criminals , convicted already in his judgment and our own , and relying on his mercy , in the way he has appointed for our pardon . This is ...
... fear , too many of us assume- -it is not as such our God invites us to his presence . It is as criminals , convicted already in his judgment and our own , and relying on his mercy , in the way he has appointed for our pardon . This is ...
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... fear , because they learned it there , or because it is the custom , or that they dare not to omit it . With others , prayer is a duty to be submitted to- a point of conscience -- a reasonable requisition of our God , which it would be ...
... fear , because they learned it there , or because it is the custom , or that they dare not to omit it . With others , prayer is a duty to be submitted to- a point of conscience -- a reasonable requisition of our God , which it would be ...
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... fear'd to be deceived . ' Tis surely he — he saw him move , And at the joyful sight , He toss'd his head with a prouder air , His fierce eye grew more bright . Eager emotion swell'd his breast , To tell his generous tale → and end Jo ...
... fear'd to be deceived . ' Tis surely he — he saw him move , And at the joyful sight , He toss'd his head with a prouder air , His fierce eye grew more bright . Eager emotion swell'd his breast , To tell his generous tale → and end Jo ...
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Page 120 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 83 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 147 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 203 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 265 - The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 318 - O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing which is evil : the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.
Page 184 - TERTULLIAN first shows|| how God promised to Abraham that in his seed should all the families of the earth be blessed; and that he should be the father of two nations, the Jews and the Gentiles.
Page 184 - There always was, and always will be, an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.
Page 316 - Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Page 306 - All the time she dwelt in the Tower, if any were sick she made them broths and restoratives with her own hands, visited and took care of them, and provided them all necessaries ; if any were afflicted she comforted them, so that they felt not the inconvenience of a prison who were in that place.