The Commandment with PromiseGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, Depository, Press Building, no. 46 Lumber Street, in rear of Trinity Church, Printed at the Protestant Episcopal Press, no. 46 Lumber Street, 1830 - Christian ethics - 252 pages |
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They passed rapidly from one subject to another , each contributing their share by relating the things they had either learnt or seen , and being soon absorbed in the study of my own book , I had become insensible to their engagements .
They passed rapidly from one subject to another , each contributing their share by relating the things they had either learnt or seen , and being soon absorbed in the study of my own book , I had become insensible to their engagements .
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If you thought I meant pretty in the face , I must answer , I do not think them any thing particular in beauty ; but they behave so prettily , they love each other so much , they are so industrious and neat , and clean , -that is what I ...
If you thought I meant pretty in the face , I must answer , I do not think them any thing particular in beauty ; but they behave so prettily , they love each other so much , they are so industrious and neat , and clean , -that is what I ...
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But there was still a want which I had often deplored , and had frequently endeavored to point out , without ever having had the success to convince them that any thing more could be wanted , than was produced by the constant observance ...
But there was still a want which I had often deplored , and had frequently endeavored to point out , without ever having had the success to convince them that any thing more could be wanted , than was produced by the constant observance ...
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I thought that if little Jane loved her father so , she would have been hanging about him , and saying tender things to him . I never liked to let my dear papa's hand go out of mine , and he used to pat my cheek and look at me so ...
I thought that if little Jane loved her father so , she would have been hanging about him , and saying tender things to him . I never liked to let my dear papa's hand go out of mine , and he used to pat my cheek and look at me so ...
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Such love is idolatry , and the thing so loved is the idol . Your heavenly father perhaps designed to save you both by taking away one ; perhaps you were each to the other an idol , and then were you both idolators , and then would you ...
Such love is idolatry , and the thing so loved is the idol . Your heavenly father perhaps designed to save you both by taking away one ; perhaps you were each to the other an idol , and then were you both idolators , and then would you ...
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Page 196 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 200 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20.
Page 184 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 89 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ; he shall be free.
Page 143 - For He •established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of •God, but keep His commandments...
Page 149 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Page 242 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 151 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 160 - God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 194 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Commandment with Promise |
| Author | Eliza Cheap |
| Publisher | General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, Depository, Press Building, no. 46 Lumber Street, in rear of Trinity Church, Printed at the Protestant Episcopal Press, no. 46 Lumber Street, 1830 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 252 pages |
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