Contemplations upon the principal passages of the Old and New Testaments, Volume 1 |
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... better to give , than to receive . It is easier to heap together large volumes of others ' labours , than to work out lesser of our own ; and the suggestion of one new thought , is better than many repeated . This part ( which together ...
... better to give , than to receive . It is easier to heap together large volumes of others ' labours , than to work out lesser of our own ; and the suggestion of one new thought , is better than many repeated . This part ( which together ...
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... better to us than we would : Isaac prays for a son ; God gives him two at once : now , she is no less troubled with the strife of the children in her womb , than before with the want of children : we know not when we are pleased ; that ...
... better to us than we would : Isaac prays for a son ; God gives him two at once : now , she is no less troubled with the strife of the children in her womb , than before with the want of children : we know not when we are pleased ; that ...
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... better than we are . Many harlots will put on the semblances of chastity , of modesty ; never the contrary . It is no trusting those , who do not wish to appear good . Judah esteems her by her habit : and now . the sight of a harlot ...
... better than we are . Many harlots will put on the semblances of chastity , of modesty ; never the contrary . It is no trusting those , who do not wish to appear good . Judah esteems her by her habit : and now . the sight of a harlot ...
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... better : Reuben saved him from the sword , Judah from famishing : God will ever raise up some secret favourers to his own , amongst those that are most malicious . How well was this favour bestowed ! If Joseph had died for hun- ger in ...
... better : Reuben saved him from the sword , Judah from famishing : God will ever raise up some secret favourers to his own , amongst those that are most malicious . How well was this favour bestowed ! If Joseph had died for hun- ger in ...
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... better for him to die with hunger , or with grief for the departure of that son of his right hand . He drives off all to the last protraction is a kind of ease in evils that must come . At length , as no plea is so importunate as that ...
... better for him to die with hunger , or with grief for the departure of that son of his right hand . He drives off all to the last protraction is a kind of ease in evils that must come . At length , as no plea is so importunate as that ...
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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.