Discourses of daily duty and daily care1862 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abana and Pharpar amid angel anxious Apostle baffled Beauty believe beneficence bidding blessed brave bring busy called Bands chariot of fire cherubim clean common conscience consecrated Creatures of circumstances daily Damascus death of Christ deeds delight Divine dreadful dream earth eternal evil face Fate Father fear God's grave hand happy hearts Heaven heavenly holy hope hopes and fears hour immortal JOHN PAGE HOPPS JOHN WRIGHT JOSEPH HUTTON King of Israel kingdom of Heaven leprosy light LL.D look Lord memory mind mysterious Naaman never painful peace perfect pledge prayer prophet proud Syrian pure reconciled reconciled to God rest reward righteousness ring of Necessity sacred sceptre self-will shame sins small a thing solemn sorrow soul staves sublime suffer sure Taskmaster tasks temptation thee thought toil Trivial Things true trust unseen victory wait weary wise
Popular passages
Page 25 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shall be clean But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 14 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 27 - And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
Page 67 - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Page 25 - Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordon, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child,...
Page 25 - Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Ab'ana and Phar'par, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Page 26 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send onto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Page 27 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God : and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 65 - But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Page 44 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just.