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Page 24 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 114 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Page 201 - but those who are cursed by him shall be rooted out. 23 When your steps are guided by the Lord « and you delight in his way, 24 Though you stumble, you shall not fall headlong, « for the Lord holds you fast by the hand. 25 I have been young and now am old, » yet never have I seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging their bread. 26 All the day long they are generous in lending, « and their children also shall be blest.
Page 215 - Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever".
Page 114 - I charge you before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. " If God reveal any thing to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 62 - The body is so constituted that the eye is as solicitous for the welfare of the foot as it is for its own wellbeing. The consequence is that if one member suffers all the members suffer with it ; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 290 - And this was the key of the strange earthly lot of those who had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, of bonds and imprisonment ; who were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword ; who wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; of whom the world was not worthy.
Page 109 - God and the things of men; and your path will be like that of the just, which shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
Page 38 - Modern education conducts the student round the universe ; bids him scale the heights of nature, and drop his fathom line among the deep soundings of her abyss, compassing the vast and analyzing the minute ; and yet never conducts him over the boundary of that world of living wonders which constitutes him man, and is at once the abode of his mind, the instrument of its action, and the subject of its sway. Why, 1 ask, shall everything else be studied, while the human frame is passed over as a noteless,...
Page 36 - ... the necessity of a knowledge of our own physical frames, we find the following eloquent language on this subject: ' Why is not the science of physiology taught in all our colleges? Astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany are not neglected. The students are required to become familiar with the air they breathe, the water they drink, the fire that warms them, and the dust they tread on. They must know something, forsooth, about " spots on the sun," eclipses, "...