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... questions sought to entrap him ; the Priest , and the Pharisee , still , would be his persecu- tors : he would be betrayed - and the popular voice would execrate him , in the disappointments of its selfish interests ; the highest ...
... questions sought to entrap him ; the Priest , and the Pharisee , still , would be his persecu- tors : he would be betrayed - and the popular voice would execrate him , in the disappointments of its selfish interests ; the highest ...
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... question within you , which shall be an unerring testimony , an infallible evidence , of the truth , whatever it may be . It is truth only which can permanently serve us . It is truth only which we seek . It is truth for which our ...
... question within you , which shall be an unerring testimony , an infallible evidence , of the truth , whatever it may be . It is truth only which can permanently serve us . It is truth only which we seek . It is truth for which our ...
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... question . But I do perceive that I have evidence within , that it is truth which I am in- culcating . If it be not , where is the intention , or the object to be attained , in Christ's living ? If he in anything was different to us ...
... question . But I do perceive that I have evidence within , that it is truth which I am in- culcating . If it be not , where is the intention , or the object to be attained , in Christ's living ? If he in anything was different to us ...
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... questions inconsider- ately unto yourselves . Examine your minds . Ac- quaint yourselves with your powers : know your capabilities . Be not satisfied with less than an as- surance of what you can perform and be . Revolve secretly ...
... questions inconsider- ately unto yourselves . Examine your minds . Ac- quaint yourselves with your powers : know your capabilities . Be not satisfied with less than an as- surance of what you can perform and be . Revolve secretly ...
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... question , let not our personal convictions of inconsistencies thwart our views , or modify our admissions of our errors . Let it rather open up to us their extent and their nature ; it being the revealment of every deficiency which ...
... question , let not our personal convictions of inconsistencies thwart our views , or modify our admissions of our errors . Let it rather open up to us their extent and their nature ; it being the revealment of every deficiency which ...
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Page 11 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 58 - And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Page 247 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 58 - And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem ; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
Page 241 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 180 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 5 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Page 58 - And when they saw him, they were amazed : and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me ? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business 1 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
Page 155 - For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself ; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, Because he is the Son of man.
Page 37 - Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here...