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... write , indeed , all is new , and all they can comprehend is interesting . They are not difficult to please ; nor can any thing , in itself just and true , be without its use to them . They can scarcely be expected to pause upon the ...
... write , indeed , all is new , and all they can comprehend is interesting . They are not difficult to please ; nor can any thing , in itself just and true , be without its use to them . They can scarcely be expected to pause upon the ...
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... write . Religion is not a check upon our intellect or a damp upon our innocent pursuits . We forbid not our children to gather the flowers or taste the fruits so richly scattered on their earthly path ; but we do and must forbid them to ...
... write . Religion is not a check upon our intellect or a damp upon our innocent pursuits . We forbid not our children to gather the flowers or taste the fruits so richly scattered on their earthly path ; but we do and must forbid them to ...
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... writing , it is with it we must of necessity begin . As we know not where in the boundlessness of eternity time began ... write more than two thousand years after the event took place ; a record which the same divine power has preserved ...
... writing , it is with it we must of necessity begin . As we know not where in the boundlessness of eternity time began ... write more than two thousand years after the event took place ; a record which the same divine power has preserved ...
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... write : but we must contemplate for a mo- ment the consequences of their disobedience , since all that now passes in the world is the result of it , and we are ever prone to forget that we are not now what our Maker first created us ...
... write : but we must contemplate for a mo- ment the consequences of their disobedience , since all that now passes in the world is the result of it , and we are ever prone to forget that we are not now what our Maker first created us ...
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... write no satires upon innocent mistakes - no dry lectures upon well - known evils ; but I bear about with me as it were a reflecting glass , which I present to the actors in the scenes before me , that seeing in it what is , they 16 ...
... write no satires upon innocent mistakes - no dry lectures upon well - known evils ; but I bear about with me as it were a reflecting glass , which I present to the actors in the scenes before me , that seeing in it what is , they 16 ...
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Page 126 - 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 85 - 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 149 - 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 207 - 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 269 - 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 330 - 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 83 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 85 - Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding : whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, lest they fall upon thee. 11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly : but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, mercy embraceth him on every side.
Page 186 - 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 186 - There always was, and always will be, an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.