That costliness, therefore, must be an acceptable condition in all human offerings at all times ; for if it was pleasing to God once, it must please Him always, unless directly forbidden by Him afterwards, which it has never been. Transactions - Page 56by Exeter diocesan architectural and archaeological society - 1856Full view - About this book
| Theology - 1839 - 742 pages
...exclaim, ' See, now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwellcth within curtains," and, ' Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing,' must be as praiseworthy now as in the days of David. What was a right feeling... | |
| 1839 - 36 pages
...exclaim, " See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of GOD dwelleth within curtains ;"f and " neither will I offer unto the LORD my GOD of that which doth cost me nothing/'^ — must be as praiseworthy now as in the days of David. What was a right feeling... | |
| 1858
...superintendent had carefully prepared and delivered an address at the close of the exercises on the words, " Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which cost me nothing." "With his mind occupied by these occurrences, and haunted by the thoughts suggested... | |
| John Ruskin - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...measure obscure, and less expressive of the offering which God would in the end provide for all men. Yet this costliness was generally a condition of the acceptableness...Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing."* That costliness, therefore, must be an acceptable condition in all human offerings... | |
| Christian seasons - 1849 - 524 pages
...substance, one rule should guide us, even the princely resolution of the man after God's own heart, " Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing." JOHN HENRY PARKER, OXFORD AND LONDON. tracts' for tfte CJmsttan EIGHTH SUNDAY... | |
| 1855 - 614 pages
...but I will verily buy it for the full price ; for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord ; neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing." This was a noble resolution, and he never swerved from it through life, but... | |
| Thing - Literature - 1857 - 408 pages
...measure obscure, and less expressive of the offering which God would in the end provide for all men. Yet this costliness was generally a condition of the acceptableness...Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing." That costliness, therefore, must be an acceptable condition in all human offerings... | |
| 1857 - 656 pages
...courts." — " Honor the LOED with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase." — " Neither will I offer unto the LORD my GOD of that which doth cost me nothing," is the principle of the pious heart everywhere and at all times. GOD might,... | |
| 1857 - 654 pages
...courts."—" Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase."—" Neither will I offer unto the LORD my GOD of that which doth cost me nothing" is the principle of the pious heart everywhere and at all times. GOD might, had... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...explanation of divine purposes, that it should cost anything to the person in whose behalf it was offered ? Costliness was generally a condition of the acceptableness...Neither will I offer unto the Lord my God of that which did cost me nothing." That costliness, therefore, must be an acceptable condition in all human offerings... | |
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