Contemplations upon the principal passages of the Old and New Testaments, Volume 1 |
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... begin , repentance is seasonable ; but if judgment be once gone out , we cry too late . While the Gospel solicits us , the doors of the ark are open ; if we neglect the time of grace , in vain shall we seek it with tears : God holds it ...
... begin , repentance is seasonable ; but if judgment be once gone out , we cry too late . While the Gospel solicits us , the doors of the ark are open ; if we neglect the time of grace , in vain shall we seek it with tears : God holds it ...
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... begin the example of a new sin of his own ? What are we men , if we be but ourselves ! While God upholds us , no temptation can move us : when he leaves us , no temptation is too weak to overthrow us . What living man ever had so noble ...
... begin the example of a new sin of his own ? What are we men , if we be but ourselves ! While God upholds us , no temptation can move us : when he leaves us , no temptation is too weak to overthrow us . What living man ever had so noble ...
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... begin to delight in blood ? Is it possible that mur- der should become piety ? or , if thou wilt needs take pleasure in a human sacrifice , is there none but Isaac fit for thine altar ; none but Abraham to offer him ? Shall these hands ...
... begin to delight in blood ? Is it possible that mur- der should become piety ? or , if thou wilt needs take pleasure in a human sacrifice , is there none but Isaac fit for thine altar ; none but Abraham to offer him ? Shall these hands ...
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... begin treaties of peace . Better doth it beseem every son of Abraham to win with love , than to sway with power . Abraham yields over this right of his choice ; Lot takes it . And behold , Lot is crossed in that which he chose , Abraham ...
... begin treaties of peace . Better doth it beseem every son of Abraham to win with love , than to sway with power . Abraham yields over this right of his choice ; Lot takes it . And behold , Lot is crossed in that which he chose , Abraham ...
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... begin to shew themselves angels , and first deliver Lot ir Sodom , then from Sodom ; first strike them with blindness , whom they will after consume with fire . How little did the Sodomites think that vengeance was so near them ! While ...
... begin to shew themselves angels , and first deliver Lot ir Sodom , then from Sodom ; first strike them with blindness , whom they will after consume with fire . How little did the Sodomites think that vengeance was so near them ! While ...
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Popular passages
Page 408 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 411 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 443 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 215 - If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Page 392 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways...
Page 444 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name...
Page 385 - Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Page 392 - But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
Page 446 - So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 307 - If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.