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... scriptures are the enemies of Jesus ; they may do it ignorantly , but they have neither the promise of his presence nor blessing ; and their labours will be consumed , though their souls may be saved as 66 it were by fire . The stone ...
... scriptures are the enemies of Jesus ; they may do it ignorantly , but they have neither the promise of his presence nor blessing ; and their labours will be consumed , though their souls may be saved as 66 it were by fire . The stone ...
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... scriptures , and the training of them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord , must power- fully influence their future lives : " Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . " Youth ...
... scriptures , and the training of them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord , must power- fully influence their future lives : " Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . " Youth ...
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... scriptures , and spread afar mis- sionaries publishing the glad tidings of salvation , and brought forward our youth to instruct the children of the poor in the knowledge of Christ . It is that love that binds all the children of God ...
... scriptures , and spread afar mis- sionaries publishing the glad tidings of salvation , and brought forward our youth to instruct the children of the poor in the knowledge of Christ . It is that love that binds all the children of God ...
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... scriptures daily to prove the doctrines of the apostles by the divine oracles . The psalmist of old valued the law of his God more than his necessary food . And Jesus hath said , " Search the scriptures , for in them ye think ye have ...
... scriptures daily to prove the doctrines of the apostles by the divine oracles . The psalmist of old valued the law of his God more than his necessary food . And Jesus hath said , " Search the scriptures , for in them ye think ye have ...
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... scriptures , and these scriptures declare , " If any man shall add unto them , God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book ; and if any man shall take away from the book of this prophecy , God shall take away his ...
... scriptures , and these scriptures declare , " If any man shall add unto them , God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book ; and if any man shall take away from the book of this prophecy , God shall take away his ...
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Page 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...